Configuring Alarm Center Communications - Tait TB8100 User Manual

Configuring Alarm Center Communications

TB8100 Service Kit User's Manual
If the base station has a dial-up modem and is able to connect via a telephone
line to a PC running the Tait
configure that connection.
To configure base station communications with an Alarm Center
1. Select Configure > Communications > Alarm Center. The Alarm Center
form appears.
2. Select the Alarm Center connection check box.
3. Specify which base station serial port will be used. (Currently, Front panel
is the only option.)
4. In the Number to dial box, enter the telephone number of the Alarm
Center computer's modem.
5. In the Number of retries box, specify the number of times that the base
station will attempt to connect to the Alarm Center before giving up.
Note: Make sure that this number is sufficiently high. If the Alarm
Center is connected to another base station or if it is sending an
email over its modem, the dial-up will fail and the base station must
retry. For an Alarm Center with n base stations, it is a good idea to have n + 1
retries.
6. In the Time between retries box, specify the length of time that the base
station will wait before trying again to connect to the Alarm Center.
7. In the Modem command string box, specify any command string that is
to be sent to the base station's modem to configure it and prepare it for
dialling.
8. Specify whether the base station modem is to use tone dialling or pulse
dialling. Most modern telephone systems use tone dialling.
Alarm Center program, you need to enable and
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