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RE: Add "beep" to booting sequence on R6 unit

Have you turned on a cold unit?  You don't see the boot sequence displayed in white against the black background. Sometimes it's a dark green,or other color and it is not noticeable against the black background.
 
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rcr@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-rcr@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Talbot Iredale
Sent: July 03, 2001 12:45 PM
To: rcr@dieboldes.com
Subject: Re: Add "beep" to booting sequence on R6 unit

The current AVTS-R6 unit clears the LCD and displays the boot sequence.  Is this not enough?
 
Tab
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: Add "beep" to booting sequence on R6 unit

Please add a tone as part of the initial boot sequence on the AV-TS R6 unit.  Currently when the unit is powered up, the screen is blank for about 12 seconds, and there are no other noises in the system to indicate that you've actually activated the power switch correctly.
 
Criteria:
  1. The tone ("beep") should occur as soon as the CPU has begun its boot sequence (i.e., 1 to 2 seconds after reset is lifted).  Hopefully there are lower level software commands that can activate the speaker without having to fully load Windows CE first. 
  2. The frequency of the tone can be anywhere in the audible range of most people (i.e., 1kHz to 8kHz). 
  3. The duration of the tone should be between 1/2 second and 1 second. 
  4. The volume of the tone should be loud enough to hear it but not necessitate covering your ears.  Severely audibly challenged folks will just have to turn up their hearing aids.  The volume of human speech is adequate (i.e. 70 to 80 dB).  I don't know if you would have that kind of control at a lower level of programming.
 
The power switch is being changed to a momentary ON (logic power control by the PIC chip), so there will be no audible click of the switch.
 
 
Ian