WaveWare SPS5 V9, Manual

Page 1: ...EMS 3 SYSTEM OVERVIEW 3 MODELS FEATURES 4 Current Systems 4 Legacy Systems 4 Features Capabilities 4 OBTAINING PAGERS FOR YOUR PAGING SYSTEM 7 FIRST TIME INSTALLATION 9 V9 ENCODER SETUP SOFTWARE GUIDE...

Page 2: ...NSE CODES 38 APPENDIX F EXTENDED ID PROCESSING 38 APPENDIX G WAVEWARE INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS 40 PAGING MESSAGE FORMAT 40 RESPONSE TO ALL COMMANDS 42 SETUP COMMAND 45 STATUS COMMAND 45 APPENDIX H COM...

Page 3: ...of the encoder does not change Figure 1 Current Paging System Lineup SYSTEM OVERVIEW Your WaveWare v9 Series Paging System includes a UHF or VHF transceiver an onboard RS 232 Serial COM port and an Et...

Page 4: ...70 Y N FEATURES CAPABILITIES The capabilities of the SPS5 Series Paging Systems is standard across the board with the exception of the SPS5 v9S and Legacy Systems These do not have an Ethernet Port a...

Page 5: ...sing a TPL Amplifier Kit INDUSTRY STANDARD POCSAG Paging Protocol Covering the Full Range of Paging Functions Including o 512 1200 and 2400 bps RD Baud Rates o Alphanumeric Text Numeric and Tone Vibe...

Page 6: ...the WaveWare v9E v9S Paging Encoder to a variety of radio transmitters It can be set at 0 or 5 Volts PROGRAMMABLE PAGER DATABASE Supporting 5 000 pagers and up to 10 Groups of 15 Pager IDs each Stored...

Page 7: ...e following ways o Setting Pager ID as Cap Code and running TAP or COMP2 Paging Protocols o Using Extended Pager ID Encoding and running TAP COMP2 or SNPP Paging Protocols o Use the Scope or WaveWare...

Page 8: ...be used Different baud rates can be used in a single installation CAP CODES Each paging receiver must have at least one active cap code programmed into it Figure 4 POCSAG Device Examples ALPHANUMERIC...

Page 9: ...plastic anchors if needed 4 MOUNT THE SYSTEM ONTO THE TOP SCREW using the 1 slotted mounting hole near the top of the unit inside the enclosure PLACE THE 2ND SCREW into the round hole near the bottom...

Page 10: ...e version v9 3 xx If you are using a Windows OS older than Windows 8 please download and install version v9 2 11 Old New SPS 5 software is available at wirelessmessaging com sps5 series encoder progra...

Page 11: ...nection 3 Exit PROPERTIES and unplug your serial connection to your paging system from the PC end 4 Open COM PORT PROPERTIES and check the COM port menu for the missing COM port connection 5 Exit PROP...

Page 12: ...es an already defined database configuration SAVE DATABASE AS Defines the database configuration file and saves it EXPORT AS OMNI DATABASE Save the current database as an OMNI Messaging Server databas...

Page 13: ...Pager Family entries in a single database configuration Figure 10 Pager Family Row 1 ACTIVE Controls if a Pager Family is checked when paging data is received from a Host Device 2 PAGER QTY Sets the...

Page 14: ...mon group ID 1 REFERENCE A small tag to identify what the group is for 2 ACTIVE Controls if the group is checked when paging data is received from the Host Device 3 GROUP ID The ID that triggers a gro...

Page 15: ...15 Figure 12 Canned Msgs Window 4 SETTINGS SERIAL SETTINGS Figure 13 Serial Settings Tab...

Page 16: ...re 15 IP Network Tab 1 PAGING PROTOCOL the data format the encoder is looking for when the host device sends pages 2 NON VERBOSE MSGS Controls how paging system replies are sent to a host device 3 ASS...

Page 17: ...tem s LAN to other networks ADVANCED SETTINGS You shouldn t need Advanced Settings for most installations unless you know what changes you need Password is maint Figure 16 Advanced Settings 1 CARRIER...

Page 18: ...PAGING Controls if a timed group message can be reset 9 ASSUME PAGER ID AS CAPCODE The encoder looks for capcodes instead of translating IDs 10 DISCARD LF CHARS IN COMP1 Removes all Line Feed charact...

Page 19: ...mands The ADD REPLACE and DELETE buttons allow users to easily change the repository 7 COM PORT LOG Shows easily readable serial responses from the paging system 8 LOG TO FILE Toggles whether any Test...

Page 20: ...r Window ON WEB CONFIGURATION GUIDE CONNECTING TO THE SYSTEM Note These methods will only work if your network is using DHCP or if the static IP settings have already been programmed into the system O...

Page 21: ...ii Click on the IP ADDRESS that is matched with a SPS5 v9E c Direct IP Method i Check your Network s List of connected devices and locate the newest addition s IP ii If you are unable to locate the co...

Page 22: ...7 functions in the exact same way as the Paging Encoder Setup software but it does have visual differences It defines what IDs and capcodes will be used with the paging system as well as a few messagi...

Page 23: ...amily Some pagers refer to function codes as digits or letters instead of binary memory values In this case 00 0 A 01 1 B 10 2 C and 11 3 D 10 DATA RATE Sets the transmission rate in this Pager Family...

Page 24: ...trols if the group is checked when paging data is received from a Host Device 2 GROUP ID The ID that triggers a group page It must be an ID not used in any Pager Family 3 PAGER IDS A list of up to 15...

Page 25: ...ault values 7 SAVE CHANGES Writes the current state of the Pager Families configuration to the paging encoder If you switch tabs before saving all changes will be lost PREDEFINED MSG The PREDEFINED MS...

Page 26: ...much data a paging system reply sends to a host device 3 SERIAL PORT BAUD RATE Sets the serial cable speed the system is looking for from a host device 4 SERIAL PARITY DATABITS STOP BITS Sets the bina...

Page 27: ...hat appears in the Discover and Reset Tool and on the network 3 ENABLE DHCP Controls if the IP address and network is set automatically or if it is entered manually 4 IP ADDRESS The network address of...

Page 28: ...data formats a system can use when a host device sends pages 11 VERBOSE PROTOCOL RESPONSES FOR IP CONNECTION Controls how much data a paging system reply sends to a host device 12 ASSUME PAGER ID IS C...

Page 29: ...IDENTIFIER INTERVAL Sets how much time is between broadcasts of the Station Identifier 7 TRANSMITTER DUTY CYCLE Controls the amount of time the radio is active in a cycle STATUS Figure 23 Status Tab T...

Page 30: ...ings for your paging system s serial input Your paging system typically communicates with a PC or a host device via RS 232 at 9600 Baud 1 stop bit and 8 data bits with the eighth data bit ignored You...

Page 31: ...ERATION PAGING SESSION LOGOUT SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION COMMAND The System Identification Command allows installation programs and other software applications to poll serial ports for the existence of a W...

Page 32: ...saction is sent per block Each block sent by a host device is acknowledged by the paging system The Host Device must wait for this acknowledgement before sending the next block The WaveWare v9E Paging...

Page 33: ...eld define paging message encoding attributes while the preceding digits define the pager cap code Extended ID processing avoids having to configure and check Pager Families in WaveWare SPS5 v9 Series...

Page 34: ...pond with an error message and an RS CR which tells the host device to abandon the transaction AN EXAMPLE RS ERROR MESSAGE SEQUENCE 511 Invalid pager ID not in database CR RS CR PAGING SESSION LOGOUT...

Page 35: ...ion TAP NON VERBOSE It reduces the paging system response to 3 digit numeric codes COMP2 NON VERBOSE In the COMP2 Non Verbose mode the response is reduced to none at all COMP1 Any data received on the...

Page 36: ...TAPMsgBlock Len Function measures the size of strings B Mid TAPMsgBlock j 1 Mid Function pulls parts of strings in this case each character individually D Asc B Asc Function converts characters to an...

Page 37: ...tween the host device and the system Stopbits 1 Subs execute code without returning a value to whatever called for it Public Sub Write2Lines ByVal MsgLine1 As String ByVal MsgLine2 As String ByVal ID...

Page 38: ...his message is accompanied by a NAK Note ACK NAK and RS are only representations of the lower order ASCII control characters output by the paging system ACK represents DEC 06 NAK represents DEC 21 and...

Page 39: ...A function code of 0 causes the default function code for a particular Message Encoding Type E to be substituted The default value for F is 4 when the E value is alphanumeric encoding and 1 when the...

Page 40: ...ength group paging and timed messaging Each protocol has its advantages and disadvantages but both accomplish the process of causing POCSAG encoded paging messages to be delivered to local area pagers...

Page 41: ...up to 500 alphanumeric message characters to be transmitted ETX Used to mark the end of the message to be transmitted EOT Used to mark the end of a Transmit Paging Message command All following chara...

Page 42: ...g receiver with cap code 0145678 Note that the portion of the string after the cap code is ignored by the paging system because the paging message type was a paging message type of one to four beeps E...

Page 43: ...ing data at a QQ value of 12 and resume sending data when the QQ value reaches 10 or less You can query the size of the Input Queue by submitting a Status Command D Numeric character that indicates wh...

Page 44: ...g was not fully interpreted by the paging encoder 07 EEPROM Write Error Indicates an internal system error in the paging encoder with regard to the proper storage of configuration information This con...

Page 45: ...es Setup Mode X is the command type and V is the value The comma delimiters are optional Valid values X are 1 CARRIER DETECT MODE Valid values V are 0 OFF 1 ON EXAMPLE 1 SOH S 1 0 EOT Sets the Carrier...

Page 46: ...ted in the data stream 2 A time period of about 10 seconds elapses after receipt of the last character on the serial port 3 256 characters or more accumulate in the serial port input buffer If any of...

Page 47: ...r are the normal delimiters in COMP2 protocol A COMP2 PROTOCOL SUPERSET IS ALSO AVAILABLE WHERE THE MESSAGE FORMATTED AS PagerIDX CR Message CR The message will be delivered using function code value...

Page 48: ...ch output message assures that out of synch conditions will not occur MULTIPLE MESSAGES USING FORCED RESYNCHRONIZATION EXAMPLE DEL DEL DEL PagerID CR Message 1 CR DEL DEL DEL PagerID CR Message 2 CR W...

Page 49: ...PECIFICATIONS A simple definition of the difference between the Scope and TAP Protocols is that the Scope Protocol is a dedicated connection that doesn t require a login process and it assumes that th...

Page 50: ...0145678 and multiple tone cadence capability Certain paging receivers aren t designed to respond to multiple tone cadence messages RESPONSE TO ALL COMMANDS RESPONSES TO PAGING MESSAGE COMMANDS COME I...

Page 51: ...MATTED STRING ON THE SERIAL PORT RECEPTION OF THE ATI CR CONTROL STRING ON THE SERIAL PORT When programming the WaveWare v9E Paging Encoder s pager database each of the ten pager groups of up to 15 pa...

Page 52: ...t also lights up if one or more error s are found in the paging system 1 CD Not used 2 RD Data Output by the paging system 3 TD Data Received by the paging system Power GREEN LED Shows Power is on 4 D...

Page 53: ...ON PROBLEMS OCCUR EXCESSIVE CARRIER SIGNAL DETECTION CONDITIONS OCCUR AT THE PAGING SYSTEM You can monitor for radio signals using a simple multi channel UHF band scanner You listen to the scanner for...

Page 54: ...to pagers beyond the normal warranted equipment repair or replacement during the warranty period NOTE This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pu...