Unit installation

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Reset and Power Up

If you have a transmitter connected to port 1, you should hear "controller ready" when you turn the

power to the controller on. This message is sent whenever the controller goes through its reset

routine, which happens in the following instances:

1) Power has just been turned on

2) The user has pressed the "RESET" button

3) The Reset command has been executed (command 035)

4) The controller's watchdog timer has expired. This is an internal protection timer that can reset

the controller automatically if something goes wrong in the software.

When the controller resets, it does not lose any of the things you have programmed into it, like

your ID's and timer settings. It does hang up the autopatch, turn off the HF remote base and a few

other things, to make sure they are ready for use. It then calls a macro that makes it speak

"controller ready". If you want it to speak something else or do other things when the controller

resets, look into changing how the "reset macro" is programmed in Chapter 8. For information

about resetting all of the variables in the controller back to factory settings, see Appendix D.

Entering Commands

It is really easy to enter commands on the controller. If you have a receiver and transmitter hooked

up and adjusted, key up, press "026" on your DTMF pad, and unkey; the controller will tell you

the time. Most of the commands in the controller are like this - you just have to enter the command

name on your DTMF pad and unkey. If you have a computer hooked up to the serial port, you can

type "026" <enter> (without the quotes) on your computer and the controller will print the time on

the screen and speak it on the transmitter connected to port 1.

Entering More Digits after the Command Name:

Some of the commands take more digits; if you want to change the time, try "025 HH MM X"

where HH is the hour, MM is the minute, and X is 0 if it is AM and 1 if it is PM. Command 025

needs more digits after the command name so it knows what to set the time to. The description for

each command in this manual will tell you if you need to enter more digits after the command name

or not.

Command Names:

When you first receive the controller (or right after everything has been set to factory settings by

reinitializing - see Appendix D), all of the command names will be three digit numbers, 000 to 999.

Command 26 must be entered as "026"; the leading zero is needed to make the command name

three digits long. You can change any or all of the command names if you want to. You can make

them almost any combination of DTMF digits up to six digits long. Normally you will want to