Communications Menu
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To make test calls at a set time every day select Daily, then select a number between 01
and 24 to choose the time of day for the call. For example, select 18 to program the control
unit to make a static test call at 6:00pm every day.
To make test calls on the same day every week, select Weekly, then select the day of the
week on which the call should take place. Next, key in the hour of the day (01 to 24) on
which the test call should occur.
To make test calls on one day every month, select Monthly, then select a number between
1 and 31 to specify the day of the month on which the call should take place. Next, key in
the hour of the day (01 to 24) on which the test call should occur.
For each of the three types of call, the control unit will add or subtract up to 16 minutes at
random to the hour you specified. This is to make sure that the ARC is not overwhelmed
with a flood of test calls from systems that have all been given the same time.
Select
Communications
– ARC Reporting – Static Test Call – Disabled
to disable static
test calls.
Unset Comms
Use this option to prevent the system sending excessive communications traffic while the
system is unset.
Enabled
The control unit communicates all signals regardless of whether the system is set or
unset.
Disabled
The control unit sends tampers, mains fail and other status signals when the system
is set, but not when it is unset.
Speech Dialler
The control unit has a built-in speech dialler, which can record five speech messages
using its internal microphone and replay them to a specified telephone numbers to report
an al
arm. One message is called the “Home message”, and is always played at the
beginning of a report. You should use this message to identify the control unit and its
location. The other four messages (Message 1-4) allow you to record some indication of
the
type of event causing an alarm, for example: “Fire” or “Hold Up Alarm”. The control unit
plays these messages after the Home Message.
Using the
Triggers
option, you link each Message 1-4 with a specific trigger (event
category) you wish to report. You then select a set of destinations for each message. Each
destination specifies one of the telephone numbers you wish the control unit to call when
the event occurs.
If the control unit has
Call Acknowledge
enabled (see page 90), the person receiving the
speech messages can control the link by sending DTMF tones back to the control unit
(usually by pressing buttons on the telephone key pad). The commands available are
shown in Table 11.
