Quick Start Steps
1. Preparing SIM-card - Buy an MTN, Vodacom or Cell C starter pack (prepaid or contract) and RICA it
(you need your id and proof of address for this). Ensure that you can send an SMS out from the SIM-card,
before you put it in the SIM-card slot of the SMS Alert. Making a call to the SMS Alert only is not sufficient
to test the SIM-card. PIN-code request must be deactivated before you insert the SIM-card into the SMS
Alert.
2. Airtime - Ensure that the SIM-card has sufficient credit. Load airtime if necessary.
3. Insert the SIM-card into the SIM-card slot. Apply 12VDC.
4. SMS 1234 bfrom your cellphone to the SMS Alert. Note the yellow LED will light up when B is active.
This step tells the SMS Alert where to send SMSe when inputs are tripped. There must be a space
between 1234 and b. If you SMS 1234 b again, you will cancel user B. If you SMS 1234 b again, you
will reload user B. (In other words you will toggle it on & off).
5. The SMS Alert will respond to step 4 by sending its status back to you. Ensure the character “B” appears
in the SMS to show user B is loaded. The string means the following:
6. Ensure the unit is armed by pulsing the key input with a positive pulse to receive an Armed SMSed.
7. Trigger Zone 1 –Apply negative to input 1, wait 5 seconds and remove the negative. The green LED will
go on for 1 second to indicate that a SMS is being sent and you will receive a SMS Zone 1.
8. The SMS Alert works on a default negative trigger principle (NO) but may be changeable.
9. Jumper setting: –T sets inputs 1 to 8 to negative trip and +T to positive trip required to send SMSe.
How to program the SMS Alert to report to a 2nd, 3rd & up to 8 cellphones
There are 8 users / recipients / positions e.g. B,C,D etc.
The first 4 users receives all the SMS’s e.g. Zones, arm, disarm, power loss/restore, panic etc.
The last 4 users (F, G, H, I) only receives the Panic SMS.
B----- ---------- V10.5 Disarmed
There are 8 users (recipients): B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I. Follow step 5 of Quick Start Steps to activate user B, which is the
first user. If you want the SMS Alert to report to the 2nd cellphone, SMS 1234 cfrom the second cellphone to the
SMS Alert. To toggle this feature off, SMS 1234 c again from any cellphone to the SMS Alert. The last phone that
toggled a user on, becomes that user.
E.g: 1234 c (There must be one space between 1234 and c, and no spaces afterwards. Do the same for 1234 d
(3rd), and 1234 e (4th). User B must be on for the other users (if loaded) to also receive SMS messages.
1234 t (Technician mode) (unfortunately this replaced the walk-through test function as with the SA9 Plus Alarm)
This will load the cellphone number from where this SMS is sent as the Technician. Only this number is now
loaded for testing/reporting so that not all the users receive SMSe. To disable/toggle off this mode SMS 1234 t
again.
New function to add cellphone numbers: - Not for international use
In conjunction with the current method of loading numbers the following command allow users to be loaded from
one point/cellphone. This eliminates the need to send a SMS from each cellphone handset that needs to be added.
When a DOT and phone number is placed after the current command, the phone number will be loaded into that
position. The return SMS will be sent to the new cellphone number, not the cellphone number that loads it. You can
however check if all the numbers are loaded, by sending 1234 r to the cellphone number of the SMS Alert.
Example: To load 27821231234 into User B, send the following SMS from one cellphone, to the cellphone number
of the SMS Alert:
