[PA - V3] Using & Changing the "Manual Bell"

1. Open your Bell System, by accessing it through the UCI Viewer. Click "School-PA"
Click "PC"

Triggering a Manual Bell

2. To Trigger a Manual Bell, press the green button next to "Manual Bell GO!"
To stop the bell before it is finished, press the RED STOP Button

3. When you press the Manual Bell button, it will play the selected bell tone outlined in the white box. 

Changing the Selected Bell Tone

4. To change the bell tone that is associated with "Manual Bell", Navigate to the "Bell Tone Assign" page

5. Navigate to "Tones"

6. In this screen, you will be able to see your 5x available bell tone assignments, one of which is able to be assigned to the manual bell. To select your bell tone, click on the current file, and select from the drop down, which bell you would like to assign. 

To upload additional bell tones, not currently on your system, visit our guide "[PA -  V3] How to upload custom audio files & bell tones"

Note: In this version of the bell program, there is no ability to adjust the volume of individual bell tones. As such you must ensure you make any adjustments to volume of your .mp3 files before you upload them to the system

7. By default, a bell file will play to its full length. If you have a 10s bell file, it will play for 10s, or if you have a 3 minute piece of music, it will play for 3 minutes. To stop the bell sound after a specific time, select your desired time using the time slider and then select "Stop after time"

8. If you have a short tone that you would like to loop for a specified period, press the Loop button, and choose the length of time you would like it to loop for.

9. To hear how your bell tone sounds through the PA system, click test. 

10. Finally, to choose which of your 5 bell tones is assigned to the "manual bell" function, click the selectable "Manual Bell" box. You will see the chosen bell change in the "Selected Bell Tone" box.