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Interwrite
TM
Pad
Getting Started
Operating the Buttons
To operate any of the three buttons, position the Pen vertically above the button and
touch the Pen Tip to the button and hold for several seconds.
The Sleep/Wake Button
The Sleep/Wake Button allows you to put your Interwrite Pad into
Sleep Mode
at
any time. Sleep Mode conserves the battery charge. The Pad drops the connec-
tion and goes into an energy-saving standby mode. The Pad will automatically go
into Sleep Mode after a half hour to an hour of inactivity. This button is also used
to wake up the Interwrite Pad from Sleep Mode, returning it to full operating
power.
The Connect Button
The Connect Button wakes up an Interwrite Pad that is in Sleep Mode and
attempts to connect, or reconnect, the powered-on, discovered Pad.
How it Works in Windows
The Interwrite Pad is
discovered
when the signal sent from the Bluetooth device
installed on the computer is answered by the Pad. An exchange of device addresses
takes place. Device Manager displays the Pad’s address in the Pad’s
Properties
profile.
The Pad stores the computer’s Bluetooth address. The computer – or more accurately,
the Bluetooth device on the computer – and the Pad are now
linked
. If the Pad
becomes disconnected, or is powered off, pressing the
Connect
button on the Pad
will turn it on and reconnect it to the computer with the Bluetooth device that
discovered it.
If you were to take the Interwrite Pad to another location, say another classroom,
where a different computer and Bluetooth device are set up, your Pad would not
be able to communicate with the second computer until the second computer
discovers
the Pad. The
AutoConnect
setting for your Pad determines whether
your Pad stays linked to the first computer, or whether it becomes linked to the
second computer. A link between the Bluetooth devices on the computer and
your Pad occurs only when the AutoConnect option for the Pad is checked. That’s
when the computer’s Bluetooth device address is stored as the
Host Address
on
the Pad and the link is created.
If you wanted to establish a new link between your Pad and the second computer,
check the AutoConnect setting. The second computer’s Bluetooth device address
will overwrite the value currently stored in the Host Address field on the Pad.
However, if you want to retain the link between your Pad and the first computer,
keep the AutoConnect setting unchecked. In this way, the connection to the
second computer is a temporary one, for this session only. If the Pad becomes
disconnected, it must be connected by clicking on the
Connect
button to con-
tinue communicating in the current session.
