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Pager Software

basti edited this page Jun 20, 2023 · 5 revisions

With the pager it is possible to send data over LORA to another pager or get incoming messages from lora and forwarding to the windows app.

How to Use the Pager:

The Pager has 3 Pages which you can nicely can scroll through with the **left **and right buttons on the board. You can select Items (like sending a message or changing a setting) with the Enter button and scroll through vertically with the Return button.

Home Page

The first Page, the "Home Page" hosts the current messages, nothing else

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If a message is displayed, you can clear it with the button in the left top corner of the board. With this Button you can also acknowledge incoming Alerts.

Alternatively you can send a % over the LORA Serial Line, this will also clear the Home Page and acknowledge incoming alerts. This is defined in the following code on Line 91.

Settings Menu

Now if you switch to the righthand menu, the settings menu you will see the following settings:

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Here it is possible to see the current name of the device and the status of the Bluetooth. You can toggle Bluetooth on/off with the previously mentioned Enter button. When Bluetooth is toggled on, the blue led illuminates.

As of Version v6 of the Pagers Software it is only possible to use the first toggle, the discoverable toggle is reserved for future use.

The Name of the Pager can be changed in the Code on Line 136 String blname = "pager";

Send Page

The Send Page is located on the far left side, so use the Left Button to navigate to it. It Houses various predefined messages, which you will be able to change in the future with the help of the Windows App. You can cycle through the given messages with the return button and send the messages with the enter button.

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The ALERT message will start a melody on the other pager (receiver) and illuminate a red LED, this can be acknowledged with the Button in the left top corner labelled SWPOWER.

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