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TABLE OF CONTENT Page 1 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DEC RYPTA 3 CONTENTS Description................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2 What’s in the box ..................................................................................................................................................................................
DESCRIPTION Page 2 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 DESCRIPTION Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 The twin line alarm receiver DECRYPTA3 for PC compatible computers is a MCDI product. This new breed of alarm receivers is equiped with advanced features such as USB port and dual output to PC. DECRYPTA 3 is available in RoHS and non RoHS version. Must be specified at the time of the order. Pricing differs between the two versions.
DESCRIPTION Page 3 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 To stop buzzing press ON-LINE printer key twice (2). Refer to printer connected to DECRYPTA 3 parallel printer port. Will resume buzzing if printer is left off-line. DE CR Y P TA 3 – FRONT VIEW DE CR Y P TA 3 – REAR VIEW MCDI Security Products Inc.. 7055 Jean-Bourdon Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada H4K 1G7 Telephone: +514-481-1067 Internet: mcdi.
DESCRIPTION Page 4 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 REAR PANEL DESCRIPTION USB PORT Type B USB connector. USB client to host cable supplied GROUND POST SERIAL NUMBER TAG All DECRYPTA3 serial number contain 8 digits. Please quote serial number in emails or when calling for support to speed up identification process. Serial number appears in configuration tool when using USB output. POWER SUPPLY INPUT (SPU15A-104 ) 100-240VAC to 9VDC 1.
DESCRIPTION Page 5 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 WARNINGS -Removal of the power source during reception of an alarm signal may result in losing said signal. 3 -If 9-12VDC input is used as DECRYPTA sole source of power, events in receiver buffer will be not be lost when power is removed and will be transmitted to PC when power is restored. 2. DE CR YP TA 3 powered from the BATTERY INPUT DECRYPTA3 can powered from a 12VDC battery only. Minimum requirements 12VDC 500 Ma.
DESCRIPTION Page 6 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 3 Insure that your circuit delivers less than 14V to DECRYPTA . Significant heat dissipation will result if using a power 3 source of more than 13.8V. This may damage the unit of reduce life expectancy of DECRYPTA . -Verify installation regularly.
DESCRIPTION Page 7 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Configuring DECRYPTA 3 receiver by software MCDI winExprecium2.exe There is no switches or jumpers to configure your card. All settings are done using the setup program called winExprecium2.exe ( provided on the media coming with your card ). This program works under Windows and can be executed from any disk drive. To use it under Windows, your Windows drivers must be installed first and properly configured.
DESCRIPTION Page 8 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 2. Installation of MCDI Axe configurator 0.1.0 Requirements: MS Windows XP Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 2. Located on CD. Axe Configurator Installation The installation procedure is very simple. To start the installation, run the installer program, Axe_install_0.1.0.exe: 1. It will prompt you for the language you want the installer to run in. 2. The license is displayed.
DESCRIPTION Page 9 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Receiver configuration When a particular device is selected and its configuration screen is shown (see section “Configuration screens”), the following actions are available: Submit configuration Press on the “Submit” button or, equivalently, select File Submit to send the configuration to the receiver, and close the configuration screen.
DESCRIPTION Page 10 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Starting other MCDI software from Axe Configurator You can start WinSAMM, WS Receiver, Traffic Logger, or WinCOM from the Traffic Connect To menu. To set paths to those programs, select Traffic Settings. The following window will appear where you can change your settings. LOGGER TOOL Logger is a software tool to log to disk DECRYPTA Excel for reporting or /and analysis. 3 raw output .
DESCRIPTION Page 11 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 NOTE: Every time the logger starts, it attempts to open the previous log, based on the interval settings. For example, if it was 14:25 currently, the interval was set to “Hourly”, and the Minute was set to “00”, the logger will try to open the log created at 14:00. If, indeed, this file exists, the logger will use it to log incoming signals until 15:00, as usual.
DESCRIPTION Page 12 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 3 Tells DECRYPTA receiver not to insert a zero in front of the account number and in front of the alarm code, for incoming 3 x 1 and 4 x 1.
DESCRIPTION Page 13 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Send year Yes = Date including the year No = Date with no year (default) Yes, tells DECRYPTA 3 to add the Year in date format: HH:mm _ _ MM/DD[/YY] ... No, by default, tells DECRYPTA Display Last Event Time 3 to use date and time format: MM/DD.
DESCRIPTION Page 14 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 - Using only one connection: DECRYPTA3 connected by Serial port only Decrypta3 SERIAL COM PORT ACK WSReceiver application COM1: Physical COM port Using both connections (USB and Serial) IMPORTANT: For flexibility of operations the signal received by the card can be acknowledged from either USB or Serial connection.
DESCRIPTION Page 15 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 DECRYPTA3 connected by USB and serial port on different PC COM7: Virtual COM port USB WSReceiver application USB Decrypta2 SERIAL Main connection: signals acknowledged ACK COM1: Physical COM port TrafficLogger application Secondary logging connection: signals NOT acknowledged COM PORT ACK Using USB Hub - Several DECRYPTA3 connected to PC by USB hub. CAUTION.
DESCRIPTION Page 16 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Configuration by front panel commands and displays General Configuration Procedure from the unit’s configuration menu Start up display Display on power-up. V.1.2.4 is the firmware version in this case Configuration menu navigation. Modes To enter configuration mode, press and simultaneously. In the configuration mode there are two modes: viewing mode and editing mode.
DESCRIPTION Page 17 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Output Format to PC Select between MCDI, ADEMCO, or SurGard Format Enhanced mode (MCDI format RRRLLL; SurGard 2000 format Select either Yes or No RRLLL) - Not available for ADEMCO format. Assigning receiver and each Line a number Enter sub-menu (See Parameters in a submenu above). Select receiver and lines numbers.
DESCRIPTION Page 18 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Wait after off hook option Select Yes (4.
DESCRIPTION Page 19 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 (SETTINGS) Choice Option _____________________________ Date: Year 00 Setting Date: year Select year from 00 to 99 Setting the format for displaying the date in the IDLE MODE. Select one of the three available formats. Display Last Event option Select either Yes or No. Yes = Keeps last event received on display. No = Reverts to IDLE MODE default setting.
DESCRIPTION Page 20 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 IDLE MODE. BROWSING RECEIVED EVENTS Idle Mode default display When not in configuration nor receiving signals, DECRYPTA displays date on first line and time on second line. Press browse events in the buffer. or 3 to ...... ...... 00/12/07 00:12:04 ...... ...... Idle Mode Display options • To permanently display Last Event received, set “Display Event” (see above) to Yes.
DESCRIPTION Page 21 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 TOOLBOX CONFIGURATION TOOLS DECRYPTA3 can be configured directly from its display and front panel commands. You may also enjoy the same commands from a PC connected to DECRYPTA3. Configuration tools are provided on the CD that came with DECRYPTA3 or by download from www.mcdi.com DOS and Windows 95 No tools available under Dos up to Windows 98 USB port will not work under DOS and Windows 95 due to the nature of USB and OS limitations.
DESCRIPTION Page 22 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Software tool WINCOM (Windows 95SE, 98, ME, 2000, XP) Use WINCOM utility to test communication between computer and DECRYPTA3 . - - - Double click on WINCOM icon to start the application. Click on SETTINGS to choose COM port ( do not change other parameters ) 3 that your DECRYPTA is connected to then click OK. Click on OPEN to start monitoring 3 selected port.
DESCRIPTION Page 23 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Select "USB Support" Select "Support for USB" <*> Select "USB Serial Converter Support" Select "USB Serial Converter Support" Select "USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver" Select Select Select Save your configuration regenerate dependencies: make dep build kernel modules: make modules install modules: make modules_install if no errors occurred, try to load the module as outlined before.
DESCRIPTION Page 24 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Connexion of DECRYPTA 3 under Windows XP or Windows 2000. First time installation 3 USB port enables a rapid and easy deployment of peripherals such as DECRYPTA . Follow the steps enumerated in 3 this section to enable USB communication between your PC and a DECRYPTA Alarm Receiver. This procedure is common to Windows XP and Windows 2000. The procedure demonstrates a first time installation. 1.
DESCRIPTION Page 25 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Fig. 5 2. Installing the Virtual Serial Port. A last component, a Virtual Serial Port, is needed to make DECRYPTA 3 talk to the PC. Fig. 5 shows a new installation window that will pop on screen at this point Once again, you will need to specify the location of the component. We suggest you accept the Recommended selection : ‘Install the software automatically’ and click on Next.
DESCRIPTION Page 26 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 3. Verification 3 You can verify the correct instalation of DECRYPTA by looking at Windows Device Manager (Fig. 8) or you can directly go to MCDI Configurator tool. Device Manager is located at Start>Control Panel>System>>Hardware tab>>Device Manager Fig. 8 Click on tab Hardware and then select Device manager. Fig.
DESCRIPTION Page 27 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 WORKING WITH OPERATING SYSTEM DOS (Serial communication only- no config) LINUX Windows 95SE, 98, ME Windows XP and 2000.
DESCRIPTION Page 28 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Operator must be warned by Monitoring software of account “listen-in” capability. Operator has a maximum of 180 seconds from time of alarm reception to telephone pickup. Failure to pickup telephone in this delays will cause line hang-up by DECRYPTA3 receiver. Once the line is seized by Central station local telephone, the hang-up action of DECRYPTA 3 will have no effect.
DESCRIPTION Page 29 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 HH:mm_ _MM/DD{/YY} _ _ RL_CCCC_AZ CALLER ID Phone signal added to event code. Examples HH:mm_ _MM/DD[/YY] _ _RL_CCCC_AZ{t...t} HH:mm_ _MM/DD[/YY] _ _RL_CCCC_18_TAAA_GG_ZZZ {t...t} HH:mm_ _MM/DD{YY}] _ _RL _ [#CCCCCC|EAAZZZ/AAZZZ/AAZZZ]{t...t} Added to 4x2 Added to Contact ID Added to SIA Heartbeat @ Signal sent to the computer every 30 seconds if option is enabled MCDI Security Products Inc..
DESCRIPTION Page 30 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Code definitions HH : mm DD _ __ MM [YY] / R L C A E Z G T Ø $06). @ t...
DESCRIPTION Page 31 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Messages from DECRYPTA 3 to DECRYPTA 3 printer port 3 When computer ceases to answer "Computer absent" is sent to DECRYPTA parallel port 3 When computer answers "Computer restore" is sent to DECRYPTA parallel port 3 CARE OF DECRYPTA UNIT: To clean, always use a slightly damp cloth; never use abrasives or solvents. Avoid pressure, shock, vibration, moisture and excessive humidity: damage may result.
DESCRIPTION Page 32 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 3 During the period of warranty, advanced replacement service of DECRYPTA is available for during repairs and upgrade. This service is available for a fee. Please contact our support department at support@mcdi.com to make arrangements. This service maybe terminated without prior notice and his subject to warehouse stock.
DESCRIPTION Page 33 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 . This device may not be connected to a party line or coin telephone line. Connection to Party Line Service is subject to state tariffs (contact the state public utility commission, public service commission or corporation commission for information). .
DESCRIPTION Page 34 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 EN50082-1:1992 --- EN55022 CLASS A --- EN 60555 PARTS 2 & 3 ---EN41003:1993 --- BAPT Note 48 revision 5 EN60950/IEC Ed 2 Amendment No1 1992, Amendment No2 1993, Amendment No3 1996 Signed this 7th day of January 1997 MCDI Security Products Inc.
DESCRIPTION Page 35 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 GLOSSARY Account number Part of an alarm signal that designates the supervised location Acknowledge Single or group of characters sent by a device or software to a device upstream. This distinctive signal informs the device an alarm event/signal was received. Carriage return is mostly used. ACRON Reporting format. Not widely used Ademco 685 Reporting format of said Alarm receivers. ANI Automatic number ID.
DESCRIPTION Page 36 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Caller ID Information sent by the Phone Company that reveals the phone number calling and sometimes the name linked to this phone number. CCITT European equivalent to Bell 103. Modem Format. MCDI can be fitted to accept CCITT. CESA FSK format developed by Bosch. Used in Europe and mostly in France. Requires specific programming of selected MCDI equipment CFSK FSK format developed by the C & K Company.
DESCRIPTION Page 37 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Dot matrix Printer type. Mostly Parallel interface and impact printers. Commonly used to print directly from DECRYPTA 3. Support a line-by-line printing. Drivers Software instructions used by kernel of operating software to direct or transform the signal of an attached peripheral such as alarm receiver card Exprecium or DECRYPTA 3 USB port. DTMF Dual tone multi frequency.
DESCRIPTION Page 38 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 GUI Graphical User Interface. Pronounced "gooey". Graphical rendering of the programming code used by the PC. Half Duplex Each end of a communication circuit can transmit and receive data, but not simultaneously. Most alarm transmission are of this type. Handshake Frequency emited by the alarm panel in order to match the format of the alarm panel. DECRYPTA 3 emits several handshake tones in order to mate with the panel.
DESCRIPTION Page 39 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 NVRAM Non volatile memory. Holds memory without power. Memory with clock functions in use in DECRYPTA 3. Can be field reprogrammed. Open In alarm industry, the act of disarming a system Operator Alarm Central operator OS Operating System such as Windows XP, Linux.
DESCRIPTION Page 40 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Relay normally close When relay closes the circuit, an electrical impulsion is sent. In DECRYPTA3 , will send an impulsion to a device connected to trigger said device. Relay normally open When relay opens the circuit, an electrical impulsion is sent. In DECRYPTA3 , will send an impulsion to a device connected to trigger said device. RJ11 Type of connector. Terminology used to described phone line connectors.
DESCRIPTION Page 41 | 41 Operating guide for Alarm Receiver DECRYPTA 3 Stop bit First bit in a byte SurGard formats Transmission formats from receiver to PC. Format designed by Surgard Company now a DSC division. Close to Radionics 6500 format. Telim FSK Format used in Europe, mostly in Germany. Reception of this format requires specific frequency tuning on MCDI equipment.