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- Page 1 Excalibur Wireless Tickers User Guide For Models 5398, 5493, and 5551...
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Page 2: Quick Start Instructions
Go to www.ebexcaliburcreative.com/ticker and click on the link to download the Excalibur RSS Reader software. You will be asked permission to run the Setup program and then the Install program, please give permission to do so. - Page 3 Right clicking on that Icon will show a menu with EXIT and OPEN. If you want to stop the Excalibur RSS Reader program, select the EXIT item from the menu. You will need to use the START menu to find the Excalibur RSS Reader program to start it again.
- Page 4 Pressing this button while a headlines detail is scrolling across the screen will return to displaying the headline. If you have set a Keyword(s) search on the Excalibur RSS Reader, a tone alert will be sounded every time a headline contains that keyword. Viewing the detail, by pressing this...
- Page 5 This button is also used to reduce other settings such as CONTRAST and SPEED. TICKER SPECIFIC BUTTON FUNCTIONS Calendar News Ticker CONTRAST Press this button once to view the current contrast setting. Repeatedly press this button to change the contrast setting. Note: Version 06 also permits the shown contrast setting to be changed with the (-) and (+) buttons.
- Page 6 EXCALIBUR RSS READER INSTRUCTIONS The first time the Excalibur RSS Reader is installed, or if you restart the Excalibur RSS Reader program from the Start menu, the following selection screen will be shown. Click the box next to each Ticker that you own.
- Page 7 To check that it is set correctly, double click on your clock display near the Excalibur Icon. If it was not correct and you corrected it, you must exit the RSS Reader program and restart it again so that it can read the correct time zone setting.
- Page 8 COMMON RSS READER SETTINGS CLOCK You may choose either a 12 hour clock display with AM and PM or a 24 hour clock display on your Ticker unit, by clicking the appropriate option. GREEN TIME To maximize the battery life of the Ticker, you may select a period of time during which the Ticker will not turn on its radio receiver.
- Page 9 CHANNEL Click on the Channel box arrow to view a list of available RSS Feeds. Select the RSS Feed that you would like to monitor from that list. HEADLINE RSS Feeds supply headlines and generally detail about those headlines. There are four lines of headlines for each channel.
- Page 10 WEATHER TICKER TAB SETTINGS ZIP CODE You may change the city for which weather data is displayed by changing the zip code in the boxes on the bottom of the Weather information screen. The first zip code box is for the city where you live, the other two zip code boxes are for two additional cities you can monitor with the Weather Ticker.
- Page 11 SPORTS TICKER TAB SETTINGS CHANNEL - FAVORITE TEAM You may change any of the Favorite Team Channels by clicking on the arrow at the right of a Channel – Favorite Team box. Select the team you wish to monitor from the list of teams shown.
- Page 12 FEED MANAGER TAB Customize a Tickers Channel Selector The Feed Manager allows you to customize which feeds are shown on the Channel selector displayed on the particular Ticker Tab. On the image below note the Add and Remove buttons for each of the Tickers. Add and Remove buttons are dimmed to show they are not active.
- Page 13 The Feed Pool The Feed Pool reads the RSS Feeds that have been subscribed to in Internet Explorer and displays them for selection to add to your Ticker. In addition the default feeds as well as other feeds are available for the Calendar, Sports and Weather Tickers so you...
- Page 14 “Subscribe to this feed” in the yellow area, the feed will be added to the Internet Explorer Feed List. If that happens, the next time the Excalibur RSS Reader is started, the new feed will appear in the Feed Pool under Internet Explorer Feeds. But for this example we will manually enter the feed into the User Feeds.
- Page 15 The news Headlines and Description appeared showing the RSS Reader could read the feed and this feed now appeared under the User Feeds in the Feed Pool and the buttons lighted so I could now add it to my Tickers Feed list. See below. Notice on the above image that the Remove button has now lit in the Feed Pool: Selected Feed New Feed area.
- Page 16 Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that which the receiver is connected. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio technician for help. EB Excalibur, Inc., Miami, Florida • www.EBExcalibur.com service@EBExcalibur.com © 2010 EB Excalibur, Inc. Actual product may differ slightly from photograph. August 13, 2010...
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