M&S Systems MC2000 manual

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com MC2000 Owner’ s Man ual[...]

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2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page i Table of Contents MC2000 Owner’s Manual...................................................................................... 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3 System[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page ii Info Menu ................................................................................................................ 34 Troubleshooting .................................................................................................... 36 Warranty ......[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 3 Introduction Built around a digital network hub, the MC2000 is a whole-house distributed audio communications system complete with multi- source music, d oor chimes, intercom, paging, and monitoring. The illustration below shows you the layo ut of your new MC200[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 4 have their favorite rock station blaring in another room. You can even select the music playing in another room to play in the ro om you’re in. You can program the MC2000 to let you go to sleep with music and to wake up with music. The intercom feature lets yo[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 5 Impor tant Safety Instructions for the MC2000 The MC2000 must be installed by certified M&S Systems dealers or installers, and must conform to all local building and electrical codes. DO NOT expose the MC2000 to moisture. Doin g so can create fire or shock h[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 6 Unplug the MC2000 from the wall outlet prio r to cleaning. Use only a damp cloth to clean the hub cabinet, room stations, and speakers. Do not wipe the LCD with a damp cloth; use only a soft cloth on the LCD screen. Do not use liqu id cleaners or aerosol cleaner[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 7 Getting Star ted: Set up the System We recommend you customize your MC2000 prior to using the system. Customizing the system will make the system easier to use and will allow you to access all system features. The Greeting Me nu is shown in Figure 2. This is the[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 8 1. Press the More button shown in Figure 3. Figure 3 - Main Menu 2. Press the Setup button shown in Figure 4. Figure 4 - More Screen Setu p Button More Button[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 9 The Setup Menu is where you establish the tim e, date, and year settings and customize the system to meet your nee ds for each room with the room station. Figure 5 - Setup Menu Set the Time The Set Time menu allows you to set or change the current system time. T[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 10 3. After you have the time at the correct se tting, press Set to save the settings or Cancel to discard them. After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room station s creen will return to the Greeting Menu shown in Figure 2. Set the Date The Set Date menu allows you [...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 11 Name a Roomstation The Name Room menu allows you to customiz e each room station’s system name. To change the room station name, follow the steps shown below. 1. Press the Name Room button shown on Figure 5. Figure 8 - Name Room Menu 2. To set the room name u[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 12 Room F eatures The Room Features menu allows you to customize each room’s intercom, paging and monitoring settings. These settings must be adjusted at each room station on the MC2000 system. To set the options for a room station follow the steps presented bel[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 13 To select one of these room station configurations press the button shown in Figure 2, each button press will toggle between the pre-configured room settings. After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room station returns to th e Greeting Menu shown in Figure 2.[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 14 Door Stations The MC2000 system supports two door statio ns. Once th e doorbells are installed, they will ring on all room stations. Whether the doorbells can be hear d or monitored from an individual room station depends on how it’s been set u p. To set up t[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 15 2. To change the name of a door station, press the Name Station butto n. The default MC2000 settings are “Front Door ” and “Rear Door”. The Name Station menu looks like the Name a Room menu shown in Figure 8. 3. To set the microphone volume and acoustic[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 16 Setting up a P assw ord The Password menu allows you to establish a four-digit password for your MC2000 system. This password protects your system setting s and keeps them from being changed. The MC2000 passwords are numerical (numbers 1 – 8) and are four num[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 17 Figure 14 - Enter Password Screen 7. You are required to confirm the passwo rd by re-entering the same four numbers. A confirmation screen tell s you the pa ssword has been set. DO NOT FORGET THIS NUMBER! Record it in a safe place for safekeeping. If you forget[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 18 Removing or Changing a Password Follow the steps below to change or remove your MC2000 password. You will n eed to have the current password to complete this step. 1. Press Setup from the Main Menu shown in Figure 3. Yo u will be prompted to enter the password [...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 19 5. Enter the new password following the same steps previously described and as shown in Figure 14. 6. Confirm the password by reentering it. You will receive a password confirmation screen. Please record the new password and keep it in a safe place. 7. To disab[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 20 Note: acoustic decay relates to the fact th at acoustic echoes decay exponentially with time. The settings below allow the ec ho canceller in the room stations to perform better with a known decay rate for a particular room. Setting Name Actual Value Usage None[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 21 Using the MC2000 The Greeting Menu is the default menu for the room station display. Any time a menu is inactive for more than 30 seconds, the d isplay returns to this menu. Figure 19 - Greeting Menu • Currently selected audio media provides access to the cur[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 22 • Room Control toggles between Default, Priv acy, Nap, and Custom (see Setup , page 12, for detailed information): • Default : Someone in another room can monitor this room; send a page to a person in this room, establish an intercom conversation with this [...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 23 Main Menu The Main Menu provides easy access to all MC2000 functions: Figure 20 - Main Menu • Music : Select music sources. • Wake : Set the time you want the music to come on. • Sleep : Set the time you want the music to go off. • More : Shows two addi[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 24 Music Menu The Music menu contains the options for personalizing and managing your music choices. Figure 21 - Music Menu • FM/AM : Select FM or AM radio frequency bands or preset stations. • DM (Digital Music) : Play MP3 music files stored on the optional D[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 25 After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room station returns to th e Greeting Menu shown in Figure 19. Select and Set a Radio Station Select a Radio Station NOTE : You must have the AM and FM antennas installed before you can select radio stations (the antennas sho[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 26 3. Use the Tune up and down arrows shown in Figure 23 to move incrementally though the radio band. Use the Seek buttons to find the station you want. Select FM (or AM if you are programming an AM station) to store the station in the system memory. Figure 23 - T[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 27 Figure 24 - Tune/Presets Menu - Stored Station If the menu is inactive fo r more than 30 seconds, it returns to the Greeting Menu shown in Figure 19. Pla ying from Local and Remote Devices The MC2000 lets you play music from a loca lly attached device such as a[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 28 4. Select the room name playing the remote device you want to hear as shown in Figure 25. You should hear the media playing from the remote device. You may also select one of the radio stations disp layed. These are stations currently tuned to on the MC2000’s[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 29 W ak e Menu The wake feature allows you to program the MC2000 room station to begin playing music at a specific time, much like an ala rm clock, or clock radio. You can store up to five events, or wake ti mes. The wa ke function works only with the AM or FM sou[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 30 • Store : Changes do not occur unless you press the Store button and then press Yes on the Overwrite Wake Event menu. You get a confirmation message for both saving and cancelin g an event. If you do not press OK , the menu times out after five seconds and re[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 31 2. Press the Sleep button to start the audio, eith er the last audio played, or a currently selected audio. Press the button again to increase the time. The increments are 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90 minutes. After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room stati[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 32 After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room station returns to th e Greeting Menu shown in Figure 19. Intercom Menu The Intercom function allows you to establish a private conversation between two room stations on the MC2000 system. The intercom connection will co[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 33 After 30 seconds of inactivity, the room station returns to th e Greeting Menu shown in Figure 19. Monitor Menu The Monitor function allows you to monitor a particular room on the MC2000 system. A room can only be monitored fr om one room station at a time. A r[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 34 Answ ering a Doorbell When either of the doorbells ring, all room stations on the system will s how the message shown in Figure 31. The doorbell ring will interrupt any music playing or intercom calls in progress. If a room station has the doorbell function dis[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 35 Figure 32 - Info Menu If you are in need of assistance with your MC2000 system please contact our technical support team at th e number shown in Figure 33. Figure 33 - M&S Technical Support Information Used by your dealer to obtain trouble shooting and repa[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 36 T roubleshooting If you need assistance with your MC 2000 System please co nt act our technical support team at 1-800-366-9422. You can also obtain system information, software upgrades and technical support on our web site: www.mssystems.com . Prior to contact[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 37 W arranty M&S Systems Limited 2-Year Warranty M&S Systems warrants its products to be fr ee of defects for 2 ye ars. Except for the AirVac Gold power units (See below). The warranty period begins on either (a) the date of purchase or installation date o[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 38 this warranty covers the AirVac Gold po wer units for 10 years instead of 2. The M&S Systems 10-Year Warranty applies ONLY to the Air Vac Gold power units and to no other M&S Systems, M&S or AirVac products.[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 39 Definitions Category 5 (CAT5) : Four twisted pairs of copper wire enclosed in an outer jacket used for telephone, fax, modem and high-s peed digital computer transmissions. Digital Jukebox Software : A program that provides the ability to copy CDs onto the comp[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 40 Inde x Alarm clock ......................................................... 29 Clock ra dio .......................................................... 29 Date ...................................................................... 10 Devices Local .............[...]

2861 Congressman Lane | Dallas, Texa s 75220 | 800.877.6631 | www.mssystems .com Page 41 F igure Index Figure 1 - Room Station Layo ut ................................................................................................. ............................. 3 Figure 2 - Gr eeting Men u ..........................................................[...]

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