Summary of Contents for M&S Systems MC2000
- Page 1 MC2000 Owner’s Manual 2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texas 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems.com...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents MC2000 Owner’s Manual... 1 Introduction... 3 System Description and Features ... 3 Important Safety Instructions for the MC2000 ... 5 Getting Started: Set up the System ... 7 Set the Time ... 9 Set the Date...10 Name a Roomstation...11 Room Features...12... - Page 4 Info Menu ...34 Troubleshooting ...36 Warranty...37 Definitions...39 Index...40 Figure Index ...41 2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texas 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems.com Page...
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Page 5: Introduction
Introduction Built around a digital network hub, the MC2000 is a whole-house distributed audio communications system complete with multi-source music, door chimes, intercom, paging, and monitoring. The illustration below shows you the layout of your new MC2000 room station. Display Menu... - Page 6 You can program the MC2000 to let you go to sleep with music and to wake up with music. The intercom feature lets you communicate with someone at the front door or talk to someone in another room.
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Page 7: Important Safety Instructions For The Mc2000
The MC2000 must be installed by certified M&S Systems dealers or installers, and must conform to all local building and electrical codes. DO NOT expose the MC2000 to moisture. Doing so can create fire or shock hazards and void the warranty. - Page 8 Unplug the MC2000 from the wall outlet prior to cleaning. Use only a damp cloth to clean the hub cabinet, room stations, and speakers. Do not wipe the LCD with a damp cloth; use only a soft cloth on the LCD screen. Do not use liquid cleaners or aerosol cleaners.
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Page 9: Getting Started: Set Up The System
The Greeting Menu is shown in Figure 2. This is the default MC2000 room station menu. This menu provides you with single button access to several key features. Each of these features will be described later in this document. - Page 10 1. Press the More button shown in Figure 3. More Button Figure 3 - Main Menu 2. Press the Setup button shown in Figure 4. Setup Button Figure 4 - More Screen 2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texas 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems.com Page...
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Page 11: Set The Time
Set the Time The Set Time menu allows you to set or change the current system time. To set or change the time on the MC2000 system, follow the steps shown below. 1. Press the Set Time button shown in Figure 5. -
Page 12: Set The Date
3. After you have the time at the correct setting, press Set to save the settings or Cancel to discard them. After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room station screen will return to the Greeting Menu shown in Figure 2. Set the Date The Set Date menu allows you to set or change the current system date. -
Page 13: Name A Roomstation
The up and down arrows cycle through upper case letters, then lower case letters and finally numbers. The MC2000 system supports room names up to 12 characters long. -
Page 14: Room Features
The Room Features menu allows you to customize each room’s intercom, paging and monitoring settings. These settings must be adjusted at each room station on the MC2000 system. To set the options for a room station follow the steps presented below. - Page 15 To select one of these room station configurations press the button shown in Figure 2, each button press will toggle between the pre-configured room settings. After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room station returns to the Greeting Menu shown in Figure 2. 2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texas 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems.com Page...
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Page 16: Door Stations
Door Stations The MC2000 system supports two door stations. Once the doorbells are installed, they will ring on all room stations. Whether the doorbells can be heard or monitored from an individual room station depends on how it’s been set up. To set up the door station functionality for a particular room station, follow the steps shown below. - Page 17 2. To change the name of a door station, press the Name Station button. The default MC2000 settings are “Front Door” and “Rear Door”. The Name Station menu looks like the Name a Room menu shown in Figure 8. 3. To set the microphone volume and acoustic decay press the Intercom button shown in Figure 11.
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Page 18: Setting Up A Password
MC2000 system. This password protects your system settings and keeps them from being changed. The MC2000 passwords are numerical (numbers 1 – 8) and are four numbers in length. Once a password is established, it must be entered at the room station before making any changes to the room station. - Page 19 Figure 14 - Enter Password Screen 7. You are required to confirm the password by re-entering the same four numbers. A confirmation screen tells you the password has been set. DO NOT FORGET THIS NUMBER! Record it in a safe place for safekeeping. If you forget the password number, you will not be able to make changes to the setup menu (for example, changing the time) and will have to contact M&S Systems technical support team at 1-800-366-9422 to get instructions for resetting your...
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Page 20: Removing Or Changing A Password
Removing or Changing a Password Follow the steps below to change or remove your MC2000 password. You will need to have the current password to complete this step. 1. Press Setup from the Main Menu shown in Figure 3. You will be prompted to enter the password as shown in Figure 16. -
Page 21: Establish Intercom Settings
5. Enter the new password following the same steps previously described and as shown in Figure 14. 6. Confirm the password by reentering it. You will receive a password confirmation screen. Please record the new password and keep it in a safe place. 7. - Page 22 Note: acoustic decay relates to the fact that acoustic echoes decay exponentially with time. The settings below allow the echo canceller in the room stations to perform better with a known decay rate for a particular room. Setting Name Actual Value None Slight Default...
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Page 23: Using The Mc2000
Using the MC2000 The Greeting Menu is the default menu for the room station display. Any time a menu is inactive for more than 30 seconds, the display returns to this menu. Currently selected audio media Today’s date Room control... - Page 24 Room Control toggles between Default, Privacy, Nap, and Custom (see Setup, page 12, for detailed information): Default: Someone in another room can monitor this room; send a page to a person in this room, establish an intercom conversation with this room, and the doorbell will ring over the speakers in this room.
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Page 25: Main Menu
Main Menu The Main Menu provides easy access to all MC2000 functions: Music menu Wake menu Sleep menu Additional options – setup and information Figure 20 - Main Menu Music: Select music sources. Wake: Set the time you want the music to come on. -
Page 26: Music Menu
FM/AM: Select FM or AM radio frequency bands or preset stations. DM (Digital Music): Play MP3 music files stored on the optional Digital Media Manager. If your MC2000 System does not have the Digital Media Manager this space will be empty. -
Page 27: Select And Set A Radio Station
NOTE: You must have the AM and FM antennas installed before you can select radio stations (the antennas should have been installed by your dealer when the MC2000 system was installed). 1. Select the frequency (AM or FM) from the music menu show in Figure 21. -
Page 28: Set A Preset Station
3. Use the Tune up and down arrows shown in Figure 23 to move incrementally though the radio band. Use the Seek buttons to find the station you want. Select FM (or AM if you are programming an AM station) to store the station in the system memory. -
Page 29: Playing From Local And Remote Devices
Figure 19. Playing from Local and Remote Devices The MC2000 lets you play music from a locally attached device such as a portable CD player. You can even listen to an attached device in another room. Before you can listen to an attached device, you must have a line level input line run from the room station to a jack installed in the room. - Page 30 NOTE: The device must be playing music for you to pick up the audio stream. The MC2000 cannot control the remote device. If the music does not play when the remote device is selected, check the remote device to see if it is currently playing music.
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Page 31: Wake Menu
Wake Menu The wake feature allows you to program the MC2000 room station to begin playing music at a specific time, much like an alarm clock, or clock radio. You can store up to five events, or wake times. The wake function works only with the AM or FM source. -
Page 32: Sleep Menu
Store: Changes do not occur unless you press the Store button and then press Yes on the Overwrite Wake Event menu. You get a confirmation message for both saving and canceling an event. If you do not press OK, the menu times out after five seconds and returns to the Wake menu. -
Page 33: Page Menu
Press the Sleep button to start the audio, either the last audio played, or a currently selected audio. Press the button again to increase the time. The increments are 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90 minutes. After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room station returns to the Greeting Menu. Page Menu The Page function allows you to send an announcement to a particular room or to broadcast a message to all room stations on the system. -
Page 34: Intercom Menu
Intercom Menu The Intercom function allows you to establish a private conversation between two room stations on the MC2000 system. The intercom connection will continue for 15 minutes or until the End button is selected. The intercom connection is “hands free”... -
Page 35: Monitor Menu
Figure 19. Monitor Menu The Monitor function allows you to monitor a particular room on the MC2000 system. A room can only be monitored from one room station at a time. A room cannot be monitored if the monitor function is disabled or if it is in Privacy mode. -
Page 36: Answering A Doorbell
Answering a Doorbell When either of the doorbells ring, all room stations on the system will show the message shown in Figure 31. The doorbell ring will interrupt any music playing or intercom calls in progress. If a room station has the doorbell function disabled or is in Nap or Privacy mode, the doorbell will not ring over its speakers. - Page 37 Technical Support Team Figure 32 - Info Menu If you are in need of assistance with your MC2000 system please contact our technical support team at the number shown in Figure 33. Figure 33 - M&S Technical Support Information 2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texas 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems.com...
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Page 38: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting If you need assistance with your MC2000 System please contact our technical support team at 1-800-366-9422. You can also obtain system information, software upgrades and technical support on our web site: Prior to contacting your dealer or M&S Systems refer to the table below for systems assistance. -
Page 39: Warranty
Warranty M&S Systems Limited 2-Year Warranty M&S Systems warrants its products to be free of defects for 2 years. Except for the AirVac Gold power units (See below). The warranty period begins on either (a) the date of purchase or installation date of this product or (b) the date of closing on a new residence in which this product was originally installed. - Page 40 this warranty covers the AirVac Gold power units for 10 years instead of 2. The M&S Systems 10-Year Warranty applies ONLY to the AirVac Gold power units and to no other M&S Systems, M&S or AirVac products. 2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texas 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems.com Page...
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Page 41: Definitions
Definitions Category 5 (CAT5): Four twisted pairs of copper wire enclosed in an outer jacket used for telephone, fax, modem and high-speed digital computer transmissions. Digital Jukebox Software: A program that provides the ability to copy CDs onto the computer in MP3 format. This software can also be used to generate playlists. DMM: The Digital Media Manager is an internal storage device that provides the ability to play 4 simultaneous digital music streams. -
Page 42: Index
Index Alarm clock ... 29 Clock radio... 29 Date ... 10 Devices Local ... 27 Remote ... 27 Doorbell... 14 Answering ... 34 Greeting Menu... 21 Info Menu... 34 Intercom Menu ... 32 Introduction ... 3 Local devices ... 27 Main Menu ... -
Page 43: Figure Index
Figure Index Figure 1 - Room Station Layout...3 Figure 2 - Greeting Menu ...7 Figure 3 - Main Menu ...8 Figure 4 - More Screen...8 Figure 5 - Setup Menu...9 Figure 6 - Set Time Menu...9 Figure 7 - Set Date Menu ...10 Figure 8 - Name Room Menu...11 Figure 9 - Room Features Menu ...12 Figure 10 –... - Page 44 115972-1 2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texas 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems.com Page...