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Pima SENTINEL Installation And Operating Manual

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ENTINEL
P
G
IMA
Installation and Operating Guide
PIMA Electronic Systems Ltd.
www.pima-alarms.com
Receiver & Decoder PCI Card
UARD
Configuration Application
P/N 4410051 F1
XX, en (Feb 2011)

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  • Page 1 ENTINEL Receiver & Decoder PCI Card UARD Configuration Application Installation and Operating Guide PIMA Electronic Systems Ltd. P/N 4410051 F1 www.pima-alarms.com XX, en (Feb 2011)
  • Page 2 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Table of contents Introduction........................5 Main Features........................... 5 Benefits ............................5 Smart Repeater ..........................5 The Product Package ......................... 6 Hardware requirements ........................6 Bios configuration .......................... 6 Software requirements ........................6 Sentinel Installation ......................7 Installation Package ..........................
  • Page 4 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Appendix D: Structured Communication Formats ............... 29 Legend ............................29 Source options examples ......................30 Structured Formats ......................... 30 Appendix E: Events Conversion Table ................36 NPAF/EPAF ............................. 40 ELL6 ............................. 49 CID/PID............................50 SIA ............................... 55 Appendix F: Programming Line &...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    • Expandability: the PimaGuard is an expandable product, allowing customers to start with a single PSTN line or Radio channel and purchase more as business grows. A PC can have up to 4 Sentinel cards, enabling up to 16 PSTN lines and 8 Radio channels;...

  • Page 6: The Product Package

    • Hard Drive 1.5 GB; • Memory card 64Mb & up; • 4 available USB ports (optional); • Standard PCI (33 MHz); • Availabe I/O physical addresses 0C00-FCFF for the sentinel support; • CD-DVD drive; • UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) - recommended; Bios configuration •...

  • Page 7: Sentinel Installation

    3. Install the cards drivers via Windows ‘Device Manager’ or ‘New Hardware Wizard’. This also automatically installs the PimaGuard files under ‘C\Program Files\Common Files\SIS; 4. Reboot the PC; Connecting the cards inputs The Sentinel has 4 PSTN and 2 radio inputs. The next figure shows how these inputs are connected. PSTN Line Sentry/...

  • Page 8: Setting The Card's Address

    © Under Windows XP After installing the Sentinel, when Windows boots up, the ‘Add New Hardware Wizard’ should start running automatically. If not, go to ‘Start’ -> ‘Control Panel’ and double-click the ‘Add Hardware’ icon, or open the ‘Device Manager’ (‘Start’ -> ‘Control Panel’ -> ‘System’ -> ‘Device Manager’), right-click the device with the yellow question mark and click ‘Update Driver...’.
  • Page 9 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide 1. In the wizard’s first screen, click ‘Next’; Windows will now search for the newly installed Sentine hardware. 2. In the next screen, after the Sentinel was identified by Windows, select ‘No, not this time’ and click ‘Next’.

  • Page 10: Under Windows 7

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide 9. In the wizard’s final screen; press ‘Finish’. 10. When the installation is finished, you should see the installed Sentinel in the ‘Device Driver’ window, under ‘CMS.’ 11. Reboot the PC. The PimaGuard runs automatically after the reboot.
  • Page 11 6. Browse to the PimaGuard folder and select it. 7. The Sentinel will now appear in the Update driver software window. Click Next. 8. If a warning pops up, click ‘Yes’. 9. In the Windows Security window click ‘Install this driver software anyway’.’...

  • Page 12: General Description And Interface

    Figure 5. The Sentinel & PimaGuard operating scheme The PimaGuard includes a Kernel mode driver for the Sentinel and a GUI (Graphic User Interface) for configuring it. The application’s window is divided into 2 panes: • The left pane displays the root menus: General, Sentinels, Communication, Logs, Repeaters and Tools;...

  • Page 13: General

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide ENERAL Figure 7. The PimaGuard interface Configuration 1. On the left pane, double-click ‘General’, than double-click ‘Configuration’, or double-click any parameter on the right pane. 2. In the Configuration window that pops up, fill in the next CMS details:.

  • Page 14: Communication Formats

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Communication formats Figure 9. Communication formats window. The selected format is FBI External The Communication formats window is made of the next parts: 1. The upper part is where the Format and its ACK and Idle patterns are selelcted. The format drop-list contains structured formats (see "Structured Communication Formats"...
  • Page 15 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Figure 10. Formats page with a new, manually set format Another issue which is demonstrated here, is the ‘Event Conversion’, which can be implemented in any of the structure’s patterns differently. In this example, CID/PID events will be converted to Hex 2-Digit format (see the conversion table on page 40).

  • Page 16: Programming

    5. Test time: set the line testing interval. The Sentinel will perform 3 tests during every interval, and only if the 3 fail, a report will be generated. See Appendix C, page 28.
  • Page 17 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide 14. PIMA style: this part is only to help you configuring the protocol, if you don’t know the format and the system number: enter the protocol as it programmed in the PIMA alarm system (in the Control Panel’s ‘Communication’...

  • Page 18: Radio 1

    PTT before transmitting a report. Empty=180 ms min: 80 max: 640. 5. Press OK. Radio format The Radio format window is the same as the Line format one, except the PIMA style and Extra parts. For the Filters, see page 25. Figure 14.

  • Page 19: Type

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Type 3. In the ‘Comm’ popup window, select the (communication) Type. There are 3 options: SERIAL, TCP & UDP: a. Serial: select this type when the PimaGuard communicates via one of the COM ports; b. TCP: select this type when the PimaGuard communicates via Ethernet in TCP protocol;...

  • Page 20: Format

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide If Communication 1 fails, events will be sent via Communication 2 until timeout is over. If Communication 1 is restored by Idle’s ACK, the events in Communication 2 will not be looped back to it; all the new events will be sent via Communication 1, but Communication 2 will still try to send the former events from the buffer until timeout is over.

  • Page 21: Logs

    Monitor The Monitor feature has 2 modes: General & debug. To switch between the two, double-click the Mode line in the right pane. The Debug mode can be operated only with a Sentinel card installed. Figure 17. The monitor window General In this mode, the last 1024 events are displayed (in the right pane).

  • Page 22: Config Analyzer

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Config Analyzer Figure 18. Config analyzer window Config analyzer checks for programming errors on-the-fly. This is only a diagnostic tool and will not prevent the user from saving it as is, including the errors. The analyzer’s icon has 3 colors: •...

  • Page 23: Firmware

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide IRMWARE In most cases the Firmware does not have to be cahnged. If you are instructed by PIMA to install a new version, follow the next steps. Firmware upgrade 1. Double click ‘Tools’ on the left pane, than click ‘Firmware’.

  • Page 24: Repeaters

    2. Double-click ‘Channel 1’. The channel pop-up window is displayed. 3. From the ‘Channel’ drop-down list, selelct the repeater’s channel: Sentinel 1-4, or Comm 1-8. 4. When selecting one of the Sentinels, another drop-down menu is displayed, from which you select a line or a radio as the physical communication channel.

  • Page 25: Output

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide 13. Extra: not in use. 14. Filter type: see page 25. 15. Add to acount: see page 20. 16. Route to: see page 20. Output When the Repeater is used as an output one, the channels are used to backup each other. Only one protocol list is used by all the channels.

  • Page 26: Event

    Channel Filter events by the physical channel - Sentinel or Communication, i.e., line X, Radio X, Repeater X, COM X, etc. For example, when viewing the monitor, you can filter events and see only those who are received through COM 1.

  • Page 27: Appendix A Recommended Transceiver Specifications

    1. It should be a narrowband receiver (12.5 KHz); 2. No data transmission (e.g. ID, pre-transmission message) is allowed within the transmission; 3. The squelch should always be turned OFF (i.e., signal and noise are fully transferred into the Sentinel). It can be set either manually or internally: a.

  • Page 28: Appendix C Fault Codes

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide PPENDIX AULT ODES All PimaGuard fault codes are sent in 4x2 format with the error account number or, if set, the repeater's supervision account number. Code Failure Code Restore *Phone\Radio Fail 1 *Phone\Radio Restore 1...

  • Page 29: Sentinel Status Events

    Reset Temperature General Fault. An unidentified error. Can be any of the errors in this table, such as Sentinel errors, RAM memory error or Pattern Error. For Example: account #65056 or #8191 for repeaters route. This happens when the output frame to the CMS cannot support account or event size.

  • Page 30: Source Options Examples

    I - Account phone number Atia 1389 Frame Structure - [S]AAAA----EE\0A\0D S = options: 8 = Input from Line (PIMA format) 3 = Input from Line (non-PIMA format) 9 = Input from Radio (PIMA format) 1 = Input from Radio (non-PIMA format)
  • Page 31 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Atia 13489 Frame Structure - [S]AAAA----EE\0A\0D S = options: 8 = Input from Line (PIMA format) 3 = Input from Line (others format) 9 = Input from Radio (PIMA format) 1 = Input from Radio (others format)
  • Page 32 61 + (1 *2) = 63 -> 3F -> F Example 2: event recived from repeater 1 channel 4, which is physical Sentinel 1 line 1 (or Comm 1) - 1 dec -> 1 hex -> 1 If the event is "internal" (failure/restore) - the decoder ID is taken from the configuration and physical channel number or default 1.
  • Page 33 AAAA EE\14 (Applicable to PAF/NPAF/EPAF*/4x2) 10 - 4x2 permanent ## - Incoming Sentinel/Communication/Repeater channel number A = 4 digit account, decimal E = 2 digit event * The protocol cannot distinguish between PAF/NPAF/EPAF and 4x2 when the input is External. When it is Output it will use 4x2 by default.
  • Page 34 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide 1 = PAF 2 = NPAF 3 = EPAF E = 2 digit event K = Multiple Conditions: 0 = SIREN OFF KEY OFF 1 = SIREN OFF KEY ON 2 = SIREN ON KEY OFF...
  • Page 35 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide EPAF=9 PID=A Other: TBD X = Channel extansion Radio: FFVVTTTTT F -Frame Number V -Volume T -The format in PIMA's panels Phone: Caller ID 16 Digits (if programmed) Other: TBD ** Numbers start from 1 to F in Hexadecimal, 0 = the 16th number. If count restarts, it restarts from 0.

  • Page 36: Appendix E Events Conversion Table

    If 69 is entered => 9 (default = 0) # => Channel #, right digit only If Sentinel 3 line 4 => 12 => 2 (default = 0) Internal line # = 1 For each incoming format PAF/NPAF/EPAF/CID/PID/SIA/4x2 see Format Events & Converting Appendix.
  • Page 37 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL ELLIRCN Alarm zone 7 Alarm zone 8 Alarm zone 9 Alarm zone 10 A 10 Alarm zone 11 A 11 Alarm zone 12 A 12...
  • Page 38 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL ELLIRCN Alarm zone 81 A 16 Alarm zone 82 A 16 Alarm zone 83 A 16 Alarm zone 84 A 16 Alarm zone 85 A 16...
  • Page 39 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL ELLIRCN Arming User 8 Arming User 9 Arming User 10 Arming User 11 Arming User 12 Disarming Master Disarming Short Disarming Tempo Disarming Duress Disarming User 1...

  • Page 40: Npaf/Epaf

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL ELLIRCN False Code A 102 Hold-Up Panic Fire Temperature Humidity Upload/Download Shock Detector X 25 General Alarm X 25 Reset X 25 Test A 100...
  • Page 41 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Alarm Zone 40 A 16 Alarm Zone 41 A 16 Alarm Zone 42 A 16 Alarm Zone 43 A 16 Alarm Zone 44 A 16...
  • Page 42 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Zone Reset 30 R 16 Zone Reset 31 R 16 Zone Reset 32 R 16 Zone Reset 33 R 16 Zone Reset 34 R 16...
  • Page 43 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Zone Failure 20 T 16 Zone Failure 21 T 16 Zone Failure 22 T 16 Zone Failure 23 T 16 Zone Failure 24 T 16...
  • Page 44 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Zone Bypass 10 X 25 Zone Bypass 11 X 25 Zone Bypass 12 X 25 Zone Bypass 13 X 25 Zone Bypass 14 X 25...
  • Page 45 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Zone Bypass 96 X 25 Arming Master Code Arming User 1 Arming User 2 Arming User 3 Arming User 4 Arming User 5 Arming User 6...
  • Page 46 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Detector Voltage Restore Siren 1 Fail Siren 1 Restore Siren 2 Fail Siren 2 Restore Phone Report Fail X 25 Low Voltage Failure Expansion Cards Fail...
  • Page 47 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Arming User 55 Arming User 56 Arming User 57 Arming User 58 Arming User 59 Arming User 60 Arming User 61 Arming User 62...
  • Page 48 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Disarming User 63 Disarming User 64 Disarming User 65 Disarming User 66 Disarming User 67 Disarming User 68 Disarming User 69 Disarming User 70...

  • Page 49: Ell6

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT CID event CID alarm* CID zone\user ELL IRCN Network Communication X 25 Restore Installer On Site X 25 X 25 X 25 X 25 X 25 X 25 X 25 X 25...

  • Page 50: Cid/Pid

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description Code HEX2DGT Atia Atia ext. Atia IRCN 13489 TEST PENING AC RESTORED BATTERY NORMAL EMERGENCY A 101 FIRE EMERGENCY A 102 POLICE EMERGENCY A 100 CLOSING DURESS CLOCK CHANGE/RP BELL CUTOFF FORCE CLOSING PERIMETR CLOSING...
  • Page 51 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description CID/PID Code HEX2DGT ELL IRCN Atia* Atia Ext.* Expansion module tamper Silent Burglary Sensor Supervision Failure 24 Hour Non-Burglary 24 Hour Non-Burglary Gas detected Refrigeration Loss of heat Water Leakage Foil Break Day Trouble...
  • Page 52 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description CID/PID Code HEX2DGT ELL IRCN Atia* Atia Ext.* Bell 2 Alarm relay Trouble relay Reversing relay Notification Appliance Ckt. # 3 Notification Appliance Ckt. #4 System Peripheral trouble Polling loop open Polling loop short...
  • Page 53 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description CID/PID Code HEX2DGT ELL IRCN Atia* Atia Ext.* Unsuccessful access System shutdown command received Dialer shutdown command received Access denied Remote arm/disarm Quick arm Key switch O/C Callback request made Successful download/access Unsuccessful access...
  • Page 54 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Description CID/PID Code HEX2DGT ELL IRCN Atia* Atia Ext.* Remote Upload/Download disabled Zone/Sensor bypass Fire bypass 24 Hour zone bypass Burg. Bypass Group bypass Zone/Sensor bypass Fire bypass 24 Hour zone bypass Burg. Bypass Group bypass...

  • Page 55: Sia

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide In Atia External, the numbers continue as following: Zone\User Order 62-69 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 70-79 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 80-89 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116...
  • Page 56 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Data Code Short Description Long Description Address Field Access Denied - Access denied because credential has not exited area before Door number Passback attempting to re-enter same area Door Forced - An access point has been forced open in an unarmed area...
  • Page 57 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Data Code Short Description Long Description Address Field Gas Trouble Zone disabled by fault Zone or point Gas Unbypass Bypass has been removed Zone or point Gas Test Zone activated during test Zone or point...
  • Page 58 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Data Code Short Description Long Description Address Field Early to Open from An area in alarm was disarmed before the opening window User number Alarm Fail to Open An area has not been armed at the end of the opening window...
  • Page 59 Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Data Code Short Description Long Description Address Field Tamper Trouble Equipment enclosure opened in disarmed state Zone or point Tamper Unbypass Tamper detection bypass has been removed Zone or point Area Watch Start Area watch feature has been activated...

  • Page 60: Appendix F Programming Line & Radio Formats

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide Data Code Short Description Long Description Address Field Communications TRANSMITTER has resumed communication with a RECEIVER Unused Restoral System Battery TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER battery is missing Unused Missing Invalid Report TRANSMITTER has sent a packet with invalid data...

  • Page 61: Repeater Formats

    Sentinel & PimaGuard Installation Guide bit6 - bit25 (INTRAC2000)/bit11 (MILCOLD, DESK) mask bit7 - spare mask Repeater Formats The supported are PAF/NPAF/EPAF and all 4x2 compatibles Format: Source format Flags & Extra N/A...
  • Page 62 PIMA’s prior written consent is granted. All efforts have been made to ensure that the content of this manual is accurate. Pima retains the right to modify this manual or any part thereof, from time to time, without serving any prior notice of such modification.

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