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Crawl Font
– Defaults to one.
Set from 1 to 4.
Char Color
– Defaults to white.
Set Color Background by EAS Severity? –
Defaults to disabled. When enabled, the text color is
determined based on a color selection set for the EAS severity category.
Iterations
– Defaults to one. Crawl is done once.
Set from 1 to 100.
Speed
– Defaults to Fast.
Choose from three speeds: Fast, Medium or Slow.
VDS Mode
– Defaults to VDS840.
Select from VDS840, VDS830, Starmu/Star8 and Sage Emulation. The Sage Emulation mode has an
optional page of text that can be programmed.
Vertical position
– Defaults to video 20.
Set from 20 (topmost) to 208 (bottommost).
Serial Port Baud Rate
– Defaults to 9600 Select 9600 or 19200 baud depending on the remote CODI
device requirements.
Serial Port Bit Config Rate
– Set data bits and stop bits depending on the remote VDS device
requirements.
Delay crawl –
Defaults to disabled. When enabled, the crawl is delayed until after the EAS audio
header and attention two-tone signal is played.
Repeat Alert Video Display
– Defaults to Do Not Repeat.
Select from a set of options for repeating the data write to the remote device after a pause period set
from the
Set Alert Video Repetition Period
field. The repeat period has to be at least 2 minutes.
5. Sage Generic CG Attribute Settings
Serial Port Baud Rate
– Defaults to 9600. Select 9600 or 19200 baud depending on the remote device
requirements.
Serial Port Flow Control
– Select Hardware or Software or None depending upon the hardware
support on the remote device.
Throttle down serial port write speed –
Defaults to disabled.
When Enabled, data is written with pauses between 128 byte blocks. This can be helpful when sending
this to devices that cannot do flow control.
Iterations
– Defaults to one. Crawl is done once.
Set from 1 to 5.
Repeat Alert Video Display
– Defaults to Do Not Repeat.
Select from a set of options for repeating the data write to the remote device after a pause period set
from the
Set Alert Video Repetition Period
field. The repeat period has to be at least 2 minutes.
6. Sage News Room Attribute Settings
Immediate display upon matching decoded alert
–
Defaults to disabled. When enabled, data for
matching FIPS and EAS filtered alerts is sent to the remote device using the Sage News Room
protocol.
Serial Port Baud Rate
– Defaults to 9600. Select 9600 or 19200 baud depending on the remote device
