Specifications

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.

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CONNECT & DISCONNECT: Clicking on CONNECT will attempt to connect to your hardware. If you have

not set a the hardware password and/or told the Sicontroller software which com port you will be using, the

appropriate input form will request that info from you. As soon as you enter the required information, the

software will immediately attempt to connect to the hardware. DISCONNECT does just that.

ADD & DELETE SITE: The Sicontroller is capable of simultaneously monitoring multiple sites. Each site that

is added appears as a tab just below the main toolbar. When you add a site, you will be asked to choose a

previously setup site file. When you select that file, you are really just telling the Sicontroller software that you

want to start monitoring the chosen site. The software gathers all of the necessary information from the site

file and uses that information when you tell it to connect to the site. Deleting a site doesn’t destroy any data or

files. It simply removes the current site from the list of monitored sites. If you are only monitoring one site, you

cannot delete that site. You must create a new site first.

SUBFORMS: This section gives you access to many of your Sicon-8’s additional functions:

ALARMS (left) accesses the alarm stack manager. Here you can view,

acknowledge and remove any current or saved alarms. There are two

alarm stacks in the Sicon-8. The first is “Current Alarms”. These are all

of the events that have not been reviewed by a person. When an alarm is

current, you can either remove it (delete) or you can save it. Saved

alarms are removed from the current stack and put on a saved stack.

Saved alarms are no longer reported as new when checking via Web

Server, Sicontroller software or Dial-up, but that can be reviewed by

accessing the saved alarm stack manager via DTMF or from the alarm

stack manager. Saved alarms cannot be accessed by the Web server.

When alarms are deleted from either stack using the Sicontroller

software, they are immediately deleted and cannot be recovered. This is

handled slightly differently than the DTMF method. In the DTMF mode,

only the “remove all alarms” or the “save all alarms” functions act

immediately. When individual alarms are deleted via DTMF, they are

marked for deletion but remain in the active stack until the user logs out

(usually hangs up the phone). Then, they are either deleted or moved to

the saved stack at that time.

SOUND CONTROL: (right) This is where you

upload and check your wav or mp3 files to the

Sicon-8 hardware. The Sound control is divided

into two sections. The top part is a file browser

for finding and selecting files to add to your

Sicon-8. The bottom half is similar to a

spreadsheet of what audio is to be uploaded to

your Sicon-8 hardware. Sound files are added

to the grid by dragging them from the top

section to the appropriate locations on the

bottom half. The sound control’s functions are

explained in more detail later in this manual.