Schlage PIB300 User Manual page 1120

Setting Up Sites and Readers
Scheduling a
Connection Time
Adding a New
Scheduled
Connection Time
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If you are connecting to sites by
modem, this screen shows when
HandNet is scheduled to connect
with each site. You can only change
the connection time for the current
site (this screen does not apply
if you are not communicating by
modem; if you connect by serial port
or through a network, HandNet stays
connected to the site continuously
and does not need a scheduled
connection time).
When you choose to add a new schedule time, you
see this screen:
Enable this schedule item: This box must be
checked for HandNet to make the connection.
Only uncheck this box if the modem is not set up
yet at the site and you do not want HandNet to try
to communicate with the site.
Connect Time: Enter the time that you want
HandNet to try to connect. This must be at least one minute later than
the disconnect time for the previous connection. For example, if another
connection is scheduled to end at 5:00, the new connection can be
scheduled for 5:01, but not for 5:00. If the phone lines are busy when
HandNet tries to connect, it will keep trying until it makes a connection (or
reaches the Disconnect Time).
Disconnect Time: If you uncheck this box, HandNet will stay connected to this
site continuously. Since the modem will be continuously connected to that
site, you will not be able to schedule a connection to any other site; if you
need more than one connection, this must be checked. When you enter a
disconnect time, it must be after the start time. For example, you cannot
schedule a connection to both begin and end at 5:00; if the connection
begins at 5:00, the disconnect time must be 5:01 or later.
When you enter the disconnect time, allow enough time for HandNet to
download all of the potential activity in the reader. The reader can send
about 100 events a minute. This means that if the reader were full (with
5000 events), it could take up to an hour to get all of the activity. The
amount of activity you have each day and the number of times you connect
to reader during the day determine how long your connection must be.
When HandNet reaches the disconnect time, it disconnects even if there
is still activity that the reader needs to send. When HandNet disconnects,
if the reader is not done sending activity, a few activities would be lost.
If there is regularly more activity at the reader than the connection time
allows for, the reader's memory would eventually fill up, at which point
additional activity would also cause activity to be lost. To avoid this, make
sure the time between the Connect Time and the Disconnect Time is long
enough to get all of the activity.