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SPA Setup - Receivers tab

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This Help File Page was last Modified on 11/09/2022

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❑Receivers tab - Lists supported Receivers information and allows additional Receivers to be added to this list.

•By default, the "standard" Receivers are already listed.

 

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Receivers tab on the SPA Setup Form

 

✓Driver ID - Displays the internal Driver number.

▪The Driver number is used by SPA to know how to process signals from this type of Receiver.

▪Several Receivers may use the same Driver number (see ID above) because they all send information to the computer in the same manner.

✓Receiver - The Receiver's name within the SPA application

✓Start - Position of the first Character sent by this Receiver "introducing" a new alarm event Packet.

✓End - Last Character sent by this Receiver "closing" the latest alarm event Packet will be this number of characters after the first (Start) character.

 

•Adding a new Receiver to this Receivers tab - (see the three receivers using Driver ID number 11 in the illustration above, as an example):

✓Click Add ("+") Icon to insert a new line in the Receivers tab

 

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SPA Setup Form - Receivers tab - Add icon

 

✓The New Driver dialog will be displayed

 

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✓Available Drivers - Use the Drop-Down Selection List provided to Choose the appropriate Receiver Driver

 

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Driver Assignment dialog accessed from the Receiver field

 

▪Choose from among the 50+ Receiver Drivers available.

▪Click the OK button to save the required Receiver definition.

 

✓Setting up this new Receiver Driver:

▪Driver ID - The number of the selected Receiver will be inserted in the Receiver ID column.

▪Receiver - The (revised) name of the selected Receiver will be inserted in the Receiver column.

✓Once you have added this new receiver, be sure to defined the Start and End position numbers.

▪Start - Enter the Starting Position Number of this Receiver's Data Packet.

▪End - Enter the Ending Position Number of this Receiver's Data Packet.

✓Click the OK button to record your New Receiver Driver entry.

 

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•Once a Receiver Assignment has been made, if you need to change this Receiver's name Click the Edit () Icon and modify as needed.

 

➢Note: Also, see the Xml MicroKey Receiver Driver for that information.