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Testing Communication Channel
Test notifications are intended for testing current operability of the communication channel and
can be applied for phone 1 and phone 2. A Test notification can be either SMS (a transmission period in
hours should be specified) or a phone call (a call period can be set in minutes or in hours or a time for
calls once or twice a day should be specified).
Test notifications must comply with notification type selected for the relevant subscriber.
That is, if User SMS are in use then Test notifications should also be SMS while if voice
calls, ID Contact, and CSD are in use then Test notifications should be phone calls.*
Phone calls are also permitted to be used as Test notifications for operation with Egida-3
Central Monitoring Station using Egida-3 SMS notification type.
* If the Who Called (or similar) service is active for the subscriber then the panel will consider a
test call as successful and this can affect the results of testing the quality of communication channel with
the relevant subscriber.
Apart from the option “Phone call at a specified time”, Test Transmission Period starts to be
counted since the moment of last transmission of any notification to the relevant phone.
In the mode of phone calls on receiving a Test notification a subscriber takes the call. This con-
firms for the UO-4S that the notification is received and the panel releases the phone line. The call time
doesn’t exceed two seconds and as a rule is not charged by the carrier.
If at the time of sending a test notification the subscriber is not available or no answer is received
from the server while operating via GPRS the panel generates the event of communication loss for this
channel and transmits this event to other subscribers and to the S2000M control panel (while operating
in a slave mode).
