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Sentinel & PimaGuard
Installation Guide
Communication formats
Figure 9. Communication formats window. The selected format is FBI External
The
Communication formats window is made of the next parts:
1. The upper part is where the Format and its ACK and Idle patterns are selelcted. The format drop-list
contains structured formats (see "Structured Communication Formats" on page 29 for the full format
list) and is also used for defining new formats. All the fields of the structured formats are part of the
format ans cannot be modified. If you do change anything, the PimaGuard will not save it. The only way
to change a parameter is to create a new format;
2. ‘Structures’ is where the incoming and outgoing Serial format trransmissions are set. There are four
optional structures.
3. ’Formats’ reffer to the incoming transmissions, i.e., in which format the incoming transmission is expected.
There are four options: PAF/NPAF/EPAF, SIA, CID (Contact ID), PID and 4X2, which stands for all other
formats: DTMF, pulses, etc..
4. Special: this feature enables you to utilize built-in conditions in the protocol’s pattern, by using the
character [S]. See Appendix D, page 29.
5. The Pattern refers to the format group that is selected in the Structure. If the selected formats are CID and
SIA, the pattern should fit to information data received from both
6. The ‘Event Conversion’ enables you to convert events from within the transmission itself, from one format
to another, to match the pattern. For example CID event 130 (Burglary) can be converted to ‘Hex 2 digits’
and be sent as ‘82’. The full event conversion table is in Appendix E, page 36.
A legend of the characters of the Formats page is located on page 29.
Creating a new format
There are two ways to create a new format:
• Create a modified format, by changing the name of one of the structured formats in the list;
• Create a new format from scratch;
Create a new format based on existing one
To create a new format based on existing (structured) one, you only need to change the name of a format from
the formats list. After saving the new format, it will be added on the end of the list. For example: to create a new
format based on the SURGARD format, add "_sample" to the format name; a new format called
‘SURGARD_sample’ will be created. Now you can change any parameter: in the next example (see next screen
capture), we’ve changed the 0 to 1 and \40 to \43 in refer to the Idle (special conditions and legends do not apply
to ACK and Idle patterns).
The output account can be changed to Hexa. In this example, we switched 'A’ with 'L' in ‘Structure 1’, i.e., only
incoming accounts from 4x2 input transmissions will be converted or calculated as Hexa.
Groups of input transmissions can also be distinguished, by creating a new pattern for each group. In this
example, PAF group & pattern were added to ‘Structure 4’. In such a case, the PAF structure must be deselected
from the first group; see the previous warning.
In ‘Structure 4’, the ‘Special’ is "Format"; this means that [S] in the incoming format group (PAF in this case) will
be replaced by information received from the control panel’s Siren and Key status, in PAF.
The same incoming format can only be used once for each struchture
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