Night Mode - Motorola DS6878 Reference Manual

Night Mode

For DS6878-HC units only, manufactured after xx/xx/2013
The Night Mode feature allows the user to easily switch to a "quiet mode" in order to use the pager motor with
the beeper off.
Enter and exit Night Mode in one of two ways:
•
If Night Mode Trigger
Mode. To do this, point the digital scanner away from a bar code and pull the trigger until the beam goes
off. Continue to pull the trigger for an additional 5 seconds.
NOTE After decoding a bar code, pulling the trigger an additional 5 seconds has no affect.
•
Scan the Night Mode Toggle
Mode Trigger parameter.
Entering Night Mode makes the following changes to the digital scanner:
•
Decode Pager Motor
•
Beep After Good Decode
•
Beep on Insertion
•
Scanning the pairing bar code activates the pager motor instead of the warble beep, and on pairing
connection, the pager motor activates again.
Also note the following scanner behavior regarding night mode:
•
Exiting Night Mode returns the scanner to the previously programmed states for the three parameters
changed (for example, if
enabled upon exiting night mode).
•
When entering Night Mode, the pager motor vibrates. When exiting Night Mode, the scanner emits two
short beeps.
•
Scanning a Default Parameters
•
For scanners that do not use a pager motor, scanning any of the Night Mode parameters or the pager
motor parameters results in an error beep.
•
If the scanner loses power while in Night Mode due to a dead battery or the
scanned, on the next power up the scanner exits Night Mode and resumes normal operation.
User Preferences & Miscellaneous Digital Scanner Options 5 - 13
is enabled, you can use the trigger to toggle between entering and exiting Night
bar code to enter or exit Night Mode, regardless of the state of the
is enabled.
is disabled.
is disabled.
Beep After Good Decode
bar code or removing the battery causes the scanner to exit Night Mode.
was enabled before entering Night Mode, it returns to
Night
Battery Off bar code being