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2.5.4 SMS Service Number
Your HouseControl automatically uses the SMS service number on the SIM card if there is one,
otherwise the SMS service number must be explicitly given with command #P0. If the unit is not
responding to your text messages, the SMS service number might be missing. You can find out the
number from your GSM subscription contract or by calling your operator.
2.6 Alarms
By default, alarm messages are only sent to the first five phone numbers in the phone directory (see
Table 1). If a phone number contains wild-card characters, no alarms are sent to that number.
You can influence certain parts of the alarm text messages with global settings. For example, the name
of the monitored house can be included in the outbound alarm messages (see 2.4).
2.6.1 Alarm Message Recipients
You can choose which users receive alarm text messages by adding the desired phone numbers in
directory memory cells 1 through 5 (see 2.5.1). Only these numbers will receive alarm messages.
2.6.2 Receiving an Alarm Message
The alarm can be forwarded as text messages, phone calls, or both depending on the alarm (see Table
1). When phone calls are used, HouseControl makes phone calls to the numbers kept in directory
memory cells 1 through 5 in addition to sending text messages. Your HouseControl keeps on calling until
someone answers to at least one of the phone calls or until the alarm expires in two hours.
Text Message and Phone Call
If phone calls (for example, burglar and fire alarms) are used, HouseControl keeps on making phone
calls relentlessly until someone picks up the phone. When the phone call is answered by your answering
machine, HouseControl considers it an acknowledgement, too. Notification messages from operators,
such as “The number you are trying to call cannot be reached…”, are not regarded as
acknowledgements.
) HouseControl keeps on calling to the specified number even if it is not a valid or a legal phone
number. HouseControl keeps also calling even if the called mobile phone is out of reach of the
GSM network. The alarm condition expires after two hours by default. That is when your
HouseControl quits making phone calls at the latest.
Answering Machines
HouseControl waits for an answer for 15 seconds. If you have an answering service enabled in your
GSM subscription, you need to make sure that the phone call is not routed to the answering machine in
those 15 seconds so that no alarms get acknowledged by the service without your consent.
When you pick up the phone, HouseControl sends two signals to tell you that connection has been
established.
2.6.3 Scheduled Report
Alarm channel 13 allows your HouseControl to send a summary report about the unit’s current status at
certain intervals.
The syntax for changing alarm channel 13 settings
# I 1 3 a b c d y y . . y
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