NETGEAR HSS101 User manual

350 East Plumeria Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
April 2011
202-10834-01
v1.0
Home Security Touchscreen
HSS101
User Manual

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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Box Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Hardware Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Product Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
System Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Access Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Entering Numbers and Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Alpha Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Chapter 2 Security Bar
Security Bar Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Emergency Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
System Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Sensors Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Bypassing Sensors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
ARM and DISARM Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Arm Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
DISARM Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Quick Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Trouble Arming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Subdisarm the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Chapter 3 Widgets
System Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Thermostats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Night Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Internet Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Daily Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

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Chapter 4 Settings
Settings Button Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Background Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Add Widgets to the Screen Saver List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Change the Playing Time of a Widget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Remove a Widget from the Screen Saver List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Specify Screen Saver Start Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Test the Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Clean Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Access Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Add a User Access Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Change The Master Access Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Change A User Access Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Delete a User Access Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Installer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Time Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting
Dark Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Wi-Fi Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Cameras. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Appendix A Notification of Compliance
Index

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1. Introduction
Getting to know the touch screen
The Home Security Touchscreen HSS101 helps you manage your home security system
through an interactive touch screen. It provides a simple, safe, and connected experience that is
integrated with your home security system.
When you turn the system on, the initial screen is the Home screen that gives you ready access
to all of the Home Security Touchscreen features. Touch an icon, button, or control anywhere
within the system to access the corresponding features and services.
This chapter covers the following topics:
• Box Contents
• Hardware Features
• Home Screen
• System Information
• Access Codes
• Entering Numbers and Letters

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Box Contents
The box contains the touch screen, power supply, and URL card. The URL card has the link
to this user manual. The rechargeable battery is inside the unit. When the battery runs low,
plug the power supply into a power source to recharge the battery.
Note: Do not try to take the battery out of the unit.
Figure 1. Touch screen, power cord, and URL card

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Hardware Features
The Home Security Touchscreen has the Home button, stand, memory card slot, and
controls shown here and described below.
Home button
Memory card slot Stand
AC power
adapter input
USB port
Figure 2. Home button, memory card slot, stand, and controls
• Home button. The white circle on the front of the touch screen is the Home button. Tap
the Home button at any time to perform the following actions.
-Tap once to return to the previous screen.
-Double-tap to go to the Home Screen. See Home Screen on page 9 for information
about the Home Screen.
-Press-and-hold briefly to bring up the menu dialog box for the current application.
-Press-and-hold (5 seconds or more) to bring up a dialog box where you can select
to either reboot or shut down the touch screen.
• Memory card slot. Insert a memory card into this slot.
• Stand. Open the stand to put the touch screen in an upright position.
• A/C power adapter input. Plug the power cord into the A/C power adapter input to
recharge the battery or to run on electricity instead of the battery.
• USB port. You can plug a USB dongle into the USB port.

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Product Label
The Home Security Touchscreen product label is on the back under the stand.
Product label
Figure 3. The product label is under the stand
The label includes the integrated circuit identification number (IC ID). This number identifies
the product and its manufacturer.
IC ID: 4054A-10400150
Figure 4. Product label with IC ID near the bottom

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Home Screen
The Home screen is a gateway to all of the screens, buttons, controls, and
icons available to you for monitoring your home system.
Security bar
System & Internet
widget icons
Settings button
LOGO
Figure 5. Home screen icons, buttons, and controls
• Logo. A logo displays in the top-left corner of the Home screen (not shown, but indicated
by the word Logo).
-Touch the logo to display the system information described in System Information on
page 10.
-Note that every lower-level screen has a Home button in the top-left corner. Touch the
Home button to return to the Home screen from anywhere within the system.
• Current time. Touch the time at the top of the screen to display the date. The date reverts
to the current time after five seconds, or you can touch the date to display the time again.
• Settings button. Touch Settings in the top-right corner to change your touch screen
settings. You can also touch the Settings button on other screens to change the settings
associated with that screen. See Chapter 4, Settings, for more information about your
touch screen settings.
• Widget icons. Touch each icon to display the Touch Screen widget it represents. See
Chapter 3, Widgets, for details.
• Security bar. The Security bar consists of the buttons and information along the bottom
of the screen that provide access to the most frequently used functionality supported by
your security system. See Chapter 2, Security Bar, for information about these features.

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System Information
Touch the logo and then Version Information to display technical information about your
Home Security Touchscreen. If you ever need to contact technical support, they might
request some of the information from this screen.
Most of the information on the Version Information screen is text, but in the top-right
corner are the icons shown at left. These icons provide information about the signal
strength of your Wi-Fi and cellular connections between the gateway and the Home
Security Touchscreen. The curved bars at the top indicate your Wi-Fi signal strength:
• White. The Home Security Touchscreen and gateway are communicating using Wi-Fi.
• Red. The Home Security Touchscreen and gateway are not communicating using Wi-Fi.
If you connect with an Ethernet cable instead of Wi-Fi, this icon is red.
The double arrow indicates the broadband connection status of the gateway.
• White. The gateway is communicating with the server.
• Red. The gateway is not communicating with the server.
The bars at the bottom indicate your cellular signal strength.
• White bars. White bars indicate the signal strength of the Home Security Touchscreen's
cellular connection. Five bars represents the best signal strength.
• Red dashes. Five red dashes indicate that the Home Security Touchscreen has no
cellular connection.
See Chapter 5, Troubleshooting, for ways to improve your signal strength.
Access Codes
Some actions require that you enter an access code. The Home Security Touchscreen
supports three types of access codes, and they are briefly described here. You access the
access code settings with the Settings button. See Access Codes on page 47.
• Master code. The main access code for the Security panel. The master access code is
required to add, edit, or delete user access codes, and to change certain settings.
• User code. Access codes for additional users. They are generally given to family
members and service workers. User codes are used to arm and disarm the Security
panel, but they cannot disarm parts of (subdisarm) the Security panel or make changes to
the master code or other user access codes. The Security panel is one of the security
settings that is accessed with the Settings button. See Security Panel on page 40 for
information about the Security panel and other related topics.
Note: The Security panels on some systems have only a master access code.
• Installer code. A code used by the system installer to access advanced features during
installation.