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Version 1.73 Copyright © 1997 Link Communications Inc. 1/18/97
Reset and Power Up
If you have a transmitter connected to port 1, you should hear "controller ready" when you turn
the power to the controller on. This message is sent whenever the controller goes through its
reset routine, which happens in the following instances:
1) Power has just been turned on
2) The user has pressed the "RESET" button
3) The Reset command has been executed (command 035)
4) The controller's watchdog timer has expired. This is an internal protection timer that can
reset the controller automatically if something goes wrong in the software.
When the controller resets, it does not lose any of the things you have programmed into it, like
your ID's and timer settings. It does hang up the autopatch, turn off the HF remote base and a
few other things, to make sure they are ready for use. It then calls a macro that makes it speak
"controller ready". If you want it to speak something else or do other things when the controller
resets, look into changing how the "reset macro" is programmed in Chapter 8. For information
about resetting all of the variables in the controller back to factory settings, see Appendix D.
Entering Commands
It is really easy to enter commands on the controller. If you have a receiver and transmitter
hooked up and adjusted, key up, press "026" on your DTMF pad, and unkey; the controller will
tell you the time. Most of the commands in the controller are like this - you just have to enter
the command name on your DTMF pad and unkey. If you have a computer hooked up to the
serial port, you can type "026" <enter> (without the quotes) on your computer and the
controller will print the time on the screen and speak it on the transmitter connected to port 1.
Entering More Digits after the Command Name:
Some of the commands take more digits; if you want to change the time, try "025 HH MM X"
where HH is the hour, MM is the minute, and X is 0 if it is AM and 1 if it is PM. Command
025 needs more digits after the command name so it knows what to set the time to. The
description for each command in this manual will tell you if you need to enter more digits after
the command name or not.
Command Names:
When you first receive the controller (or right after everything has been set to factory settings
by reinitializing - see Appendix D), all of the command names will be three digit numbers, 000
to 500. Command 26 must be entered as "026"; the leading zero is needed to make the
command name three digits long. You can change any or all of the command names if you
want to. You can make them almost any combination of DTMF digits up to six digits long.
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