Alpha Communications AlphaTouch - Call Buttons; Door Release and Action Buttons

• Play Voice Prompts? When set to ‘Yes’ the panel will audibly tell the visitor what to do in order to call
a resident.
• Visitor Language Options: Select which language options will be available on this door station.
• Default Language for Text & Audio: Select the language you want to be used by default on this door/
entry panel. The visitor can select another language if desired.
» Directory Settings
• Enable Directory? In some cases, the apartment directory listing will not be needed. For example, you
may have just a single custom button that calls the front desk. The directory button can be disabled by
setting this option to ‘No’
• Directory Format: Specify what information you wish to be displayed on the panel’s directory screen,
and how you wish to sort the directory.
• Resident Listing Format: Choose which part(s) of the Residents’ names you wish to display and in
which order.
» Call Buttons
• Custom Call Buttons: You can specify up to 4 Custom Call Buttons. For each button, specify an icon
to display, a caption to appear on the button, and select the apartment(s) that button should call when
pressed.
oTo disable a button, simply remove all apartments from the call list.
» Door Release and Action Buttons
You can specify up to 3 dierent “action buttons” available to residents. These buttons are used to trigger any or
all of the 3 relays located on this station. The three action buttons are referred to as “Primary”, “Secondary” and
“Tertiary”. All 3 of these buttons can be congured in virtually the same way to provide your resident up to 3
action buttons to perform dierent tasks.
• Enabling An Action Button: Click on the appropriate action button tab. Click the gray/green slider to
enable or disable this button.
• Caption: The text that is displayed for each action button to let Residents know what action they are
taking (ie, Open Door or Trigger Alarm
• Availability: Specify if this button is available to residents:
oOnly when a call is placed to them
oOnly when manually viewing a panel camera
oAt all Times.
• Trigger: You can specify the DTMF tone that the resident will use during a telephone call to trigger this
action.
oThe secondary and tertiary action buttons give you one additional option here. You can the option
to trigger this action any time a call is placed. This may be used for an oce building to tie into
a stand-alone call system or chime.
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