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DIAL-IN EVENTS

ControlMate supports a voice-call from any authorised CLI number to

initiate any controller

command

. The command

for CLI member ‘n’

may be changed with

SET DIALIN n

{command}

Each CLI user may have a different assigned dial-in command.

The ControlMate

allows the call to ‘ring’ twice

, but rejects the incoming call

–

thus it is a

free

call,

however the caller w

on’t know

if the device has turned on or off

in response to the dial-in. If you

have SMS assigned to that event, the unit can be configured to send a confirmation of the recent
dial-in event.

When a

successful

call-in has been made, hang-up within 5 secs, and the controller will make a

return call as notification of a successful access attempt.

DO NOT ANSWER THE CALLBACK

, or the

SIM account will be charged. Reject or ignore the notification call-back, which will be dropped after
approximately 5 seconds. Call-back notifications may be disabled with

SET CALL OFF

For example,

if ‘

Out 0 Toggle

’ is configured, and

output 0 is connected to a pump, which can run

for up to an hour

…

Set the pulse duration for output 0 to hold

‘

’

for 1 hour… then if a caller dials in, or forgets to call

back, the pump will turn off automatically after an

hour anyway. This doesn’t help if someone else

dials in

‘

to be helpful

’

–

soon after you turned the pump on

–

as they will simply turn the pump off !

Just make sure those in the caller ID

access list know what they’re doing.

The notifications can help

reduce any confusion. If you don’t get a

call-back

–

the command may not have been executed

–

checking with a

SHO xxx

inquiry may be worthwhile.

Users may be added to the OUTSMS assignments for any output

–

and

they’ll

be notified by text

message whenever that relay changes state.

SETTING TIMERS

The timer capabilities are extremely flexible. There are multiple timers

–

each may be set to operate

on one or more days of the week at a specified time.

Example: To set timer #4 to toggle output relay #1 on Weekends at 17:00 (5:00pm)

–

SET TIMER 4 17:00 Wke out 1 tog

To break this down into four fields

…

SET TIMER 4

is self-explanatory

…

17:00

is the time on selected days to perform the command.

This timer is only triggered on Weekend days (

WKE

… and the command to be executed is

OUT 1 TOG

Caller-ID data is provided between the first and second incoming ring. Ensure the phone making the

incoming call is configured to

send

Caller-

ID information, or ControlMate can’t identify the caller by their

number.

The caller’s phone number must be correctly stored in the CLI list for a dial

-in to be successful. There is no

difference to a dial-in user if their call is accepted or rejected as being a CLI member. It is suggested in this
case that any dial-in output is configured with a

pulsed

duration, or to send an SMS back to the sender - to

avoid being acci

dentally toggled the ‘wrong’ way –

thus any dial-in call after the pulse has expired will always

set the output ‘on’ for another pulse cycle.