Timed Operations; Prepaid Airtime Voucher Loading - Polygon Technologies Micro Commander GC0101 User Manual

11. TIMED OPERATIONS

The Micro Commander supports time constraints, which can be setup for any statement. Time
constraints will prevent a statement from triggering outside of the preselected times and days of the
week. The Micro Commander can also be configured to trigger a statement at a certain time on a
certain date or group of days.
The current time and date can be set in one of two ways, either by SMS or by clicking on the
"Set to PC time" in the software interface under the "Status Tab".
By means of SMS you would send a special SMS message to the Micro Commander, containing
the text: "SETTIME". The cellular network supplies the time and date with any message
that is sent, and the Micro Commander sets its own time according to this.
Please Note: The Micro Commander will lose its time if power is removed, and no battery
backup is used. Upon power-up, if any statement has a time constraint enabled, the Micro
Commander will automatically send a message to the first number in the list, requesting a
"SETTIME" reply so that it can set its time. This message will be sent a maximum of 3
times.
The Micro Commander will not allow any time constrained statement to trigger if the time
has not yet been set.

12. PREPAID AIRTIME VOUCHER LOADING

If using a prepaid SIM card, it is recommended that prepaid airtime be topped up via an ATM or via
your bank's Internet banking portal. If your network or bank does not support this, you can purchase
a normal airtime voucher and remotely send the voucher number to the Micro Commander, which
will in turn send the voucher number to the network to top up the airtime.
Your airtime top-up voucher is typically a long number, and when using this voucher number with a
normal cellphone, you typically need to frame this number by some preceding and appending text.
For example, with MTN in South Africa, you need to send:
"*141*0000000000000#"
where the "141" is network-dependent, and the 0000000000000 is the voucher number.
This detail is typically provided on the voucher slip.
To send a voucher to the Micro Commander, you simply send it an SMS of the form :
SENDUSD:*141*000000000000# ( from any number)
where 000000000000 is the voucher number.
The Micro Commander will receive this and post the voucher number along to the network.
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