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Substantially at the same time of transmitting the instructions to the receiver 3B, a timer is started in step 1006 for TIMING a response signal from the receiver 3B. In step 1007 the timer runs until a predefined timeout, e.g. 10 seconds, is reached. In step 1008 a counter value is changed. In step 1009 the counter value is compared with a predefined threshold value. If the counter value equals the predefined threshold value, then in step 1005 the first operation mode identifier is changed into the second mode identifier in the memory 16.


Optionally a timer is used for TIMING the receipt the response signal.