[Electronics-talk] Home security systems
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Sun Mar 8 20:50:51 UTC 2015
Here is the manual.
Dave
756990 – Kelvin Talking Thermostat
Side 1- Introduction:
This tape was prepared by Independent Living Aids
to introduce you to the Kelvin Voice Interactive
Thermostat and to instruct those who are visually
impaired, on how to use and operate the thermostat.
The Kelvin Voice Interactive Thermostat is
endorsed by the National Federation of the Blind.
It is mercury free, and is FCC approved.
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Before you open the plastic packaging, please
listen to the following information:
The thermostat comes with a 1 year warranty,
starting from the date of purchase.
In the package are a warranty information card and two manuals.
One manual is for installation of the thermostat
and the other manual is for operation of the thermostat.
Keep the warranty card, the sales slip, and the
manuals together for your records.
The phone number to call for support and warranty service is 516-937-1848.
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Whoever installs the thermostat must first remove
the old thermostat and identify and label the
wires so that they can be reconnected to the new
thermostat in the proper order.
The installer must secure the wires to keep them
from falling into the wall before reconnecting them to the new thermostat.
The installer must drill some holes for screws
that mount the new thermostat to the wall.
These steps will be very difficult for someone
with impaired vision to accomplish, so the
procedures for installing the thermostat are not on this tape.
Actually, the manufacturer recommends that the
thermostat be professionally installed. However,
if you have a friend or relative who is
comfortable with making changes to household
wiring or other electrical projects, he or she
should be able to install the thermostat by
following the procedures in the instruction manual.
I recommend that you give the installer the
thermostat’s package before you open it. The
outside of the package explains which systems
this thermostat will work with. If the thermostat
won’t work with your system, you can return the package unopened.
If the installer determines that the thermostat
will work for you, he will find a detailed
installation manual inside the package.
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For your information, here is a description of
what the installer will do for you, so that if
you hire a professional, you will have an idea of what he is charging you for.
The Kelvin thermostat can be used with systems
operating on 10 to 30 volts AC and up to 1 ampere maximum.
This means that it can be used with most 24 volt
gas, oil, or electric heating and cooling systems
that have 2, 3, or 4 wire hookups. This fits the
great majority of installations.
The Kelvin thermostat can also be used with steam
heating systems that have a 24 volts ac low voltage hookup.
• It cannot be used with an electric baseboard heating system.
• It cannot be used with heat pumps.
• It cannot be used with any 120 volt heating systems.
The best location for mounting the thermostat is
about 5 feet from the floor, in an area with good
airflow and not located near anything that will
affect its temperature readings. This means to
avoid placing the thermostat in direct sunlight,
directly under a lamp, directly over a radiator,
next to an outside door, or in an unheated room.
Of course, if you are replacing an existing
thermostat with the Kelvin thermostat, your only
choice may be to simply install the new
thermostat where your old one was located.
The package contains a sheet of stick-on labels
so that the installer can properly label each
wire as it is removed from the old thermostat.
When the wires are properly labeled, the
installer will know which wires go to which connections on the new thermostat.
The installer will drill two holes in the wall
for mounting the thermostat. He will screw the
thermostat’s wall plate to the wall and connect
the wires. The package contains the necessary screws and plastic wall anchors.
He will install batteries in the Thermostat’s
body and snap the body on to the wall plate. The
package does not contain any batteries. You will
need to provide four AA batteries.
The installer will program the thermostat with
the correct time and day. My estimate is that
unless there is something unusual, the installer
should be able to complete the work in less than ½ hour.
The thermostat comes programmed with factory
default thermostat settings for heating and
cooling periods for each day of the week. You can
ask the installer to change them if you wish.
However, you will be able to change these settings whenever you want to.
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After the thermostat is installed, you will be
able to hear an information message from the thermostat whenever you want to.
You have two ways of activating the thermostat’s
information message. You can press a button on
front of the thermostat, or you can clap twice and say “thermostat”.
Either way, the thermostat will announce the
time, the room temperature, and the thermostat setting.
You will then be able to change the thermostat
setting either by speaking to the thermostat or
by pressing a button on the thermostat.
You can change the thermostat setting one degree at a time.
To do it by voice command, you say either “raise”
or “lower”. If you don’t want to make the change
by saying “raise” or “lower” you can press the
“up” button or the “down” button on the front of
the thermostat. Either way, the thermostat will
tell you the new thermostat setting.
Here is what it sounds like:
====Record:
double clap
say Thermostat
say Raise
say Lower
The rest of this side of this tape contains a
description of your thermostat. Don’t try to
follow these instructions too closely; they
aren’t intended to show you how to operate the
thermostat. They are intended to familiarize you
with the thermostat and all of its features.
The other side of this tape has detailed
operating instructions for listening to the
current temperature, changing the thermostat
settings, changing the daily programming, and replacing the batteries.
First, let me explain about the batteries. The
thermostat can work on house current, batteries,
or both. It’s set at the factory to run on both.
This setting will give you the longest battery
life, about 1 year. This is the setting you
should use. You might want to ask the installer
to verify that the thermostat is set up this way,
so that it will operate on house current and batteries.
You should always keep batteries installed in the
thermostat so that if your house power goes out,
the thermostat will keep working.
When the batteries are low, the thermostat will
make a beeping sound every 10 minutes to remind
you to replace them. When you change batteries,
all of your programming will be maintained,
except for the correct time. That will have to be
reset, but it is a simple thing to do.
There is a battery replacement procedure on the
other side of this tape, but it would be best if
you had someone replace the batteries for you
when they get low. The reason for this is that
after you replace the batteries, you must reset
the thermostat’s clock. Imagine that your
thermostat is programmed to lower the house
temperature to 62 degrees at 10 pm, but the
thermostat’s clock is set incorrectly, so that at
12 noon the thermostat thinks it’s 10 at night.
You house will be too cold in the daytime and it will be too warm at night.
What this means is that after you replace the
batteries you need to know the correct time and
set the thermostat to that time. If your vision
is not too impaired to see the time on a clock,
or if you have another way of obtaining the
correct time, then you can change the batteries
and reset the thermostat’s clock. If not, you
will need someone to do it for you.
Here is a suggestion. Most houses and apartments
have smoke detectors, whose batteries should be
replaced once a year. You may also have other
devices, like alarm clocks that have batteries to
help the clock keep correct time if the power
goes out. All these batteries should also be
replaced once a year. It might be a good idea to
make a list of all these devices, and then
replace all of their batteries at the same time
every year. Since you will know in advance that
all these batteries need to be replaced at once,
you can ask a friend or relative to do it for
you. I think it’s much better than suddenly
hearing your thermostat or your smoke detector
start to beep, trying to determine what device is
beeping, and why is it beeping; and then perhaps
trying to find four fresh batteries, digging out
this tape, for battery replacement instructions, and so on.
When it is mounted on the wall, the thermostat
appears as a roughly 5 inch square with rounded corners and curved sides.
The top third of the thermostat contains a Liquid
Crystal Display that shows the day, the time, the
room temperature and some other information. The
display can also be used as an aid to programming
the thermostat, but the display is not lit, so
that black characters appear on a silver-grey
background. People with impaired vision may not
be able to read the display and will have to rely
on the voice feature of the thermostat. But the
voice feature of the thermostat is so complete
that you don’t need to use the LCD display at all.
There is a small hole to the right of the
display. The microphone is behind that hole.
Although the microphone is small, it is sensitive
enough to pick up your voice commands from across the room.
The middle third of the thermostat has a large
circular disk in the center. The disk covers the speaker.
On each side of the disk there is a button for
changing the temperature setting.
The button on the right has a large raised letter
V, indicating that it is for lowering the temperature setting.
The button on the left has a large raised
upside-down letter V, indicating it is for raising the temperature setting.
The bottom third of the thermostat is a hinged
cover. When you swing this cover down, you have
access to the programming buttons.
There are 10 programming buttons. These buttons
are used to set the clock, to set the day of the
week, and to set the temperature. When you press
one of these buttons, the thermostat will tell
you the current setting so that you can change it if you wish.
Finally, at the very bottom of the thermostat
there are two switches. One switch has 3
settings: cool, off and Heat. If your thermostat
is controlling both a heating system and a
cooling system, you move this switch to the
correct position at the beginning of the heating
season or the cooling season. If you don’t want
the thermostat to control the house temperature,
you set the switch to the OFF position.
The other switch has two settings: Fan Auto and
Fan On. If you are controlling a system with a
fan, like a cooling system, you can have the fan
run all the time by setting the switch to Fan On.
If you set the switch to Fan Auto, then the fan
will go on automatically when the cooling system
starts to cool the air, and the fan will stop
when the cooling system stops cooling the air.
Ask the installer whether the Fan switch works
with your system. If you are only controlling a
normal household heating system, the setting of
the Fan switch may have no effect and it can be ignored.
The Kelvin thermostat is a 7 day programmable
thermostat. That means that you can set different
time and temperature profiles for each day of the week.
The Kelvin thermostat comes preprogrammed with a
temperature control schedule that will work for
most household situations. If the factory program
is not to your liking you can program the thermostat to satisfy your own needs.
As I mentioned before, the 10 programming buttons
are all located behind a swing down cover. Four
of them are rectangular shaped buttons labeled
Morning, Day, Evening, and Night.
You press the day button to select the day you
are programming the thermostat for.
Then you press the morning button so that you can
set the time that your morning begins. Then you
set the temperature for the morning.
Then you press the day button to set the time
that your day begins. You then set the temperature for the daytime.
You repeat this for the evening button and the night button.
The result is that for every day of the week you
can have four different times at which you can
set the thermostat’s temperature settings.
Here is what the factory settings are:
Every day’s temperature settings are the same. Here is what they are:
At night time, which is set to 11 10 pm, the
thermostat drops to 64 62 degrees. The house is
cold while you are sleeping under a warm blanket.
In the morning, at 6 am, the temperature rises to
70 degrees, so that you can wash up and get
dressed at a comfortable temperature.
During the day, which begins at 9 8 am, the
temperature drops to 66 62 degrees. This setting
was made on the assumption that everyone in the
house would be at work or at school. If someone
is home during the day, you might want to raise
this setting, maybe to 68 or higher.
In the evening, which begins at 4 6 pm, the
temperature raises to 70, on the assumption that everyone is home again.
At night, at 11 10 pm, the temperature drops to
64 62 degrees again for night time sleeping.
[The exact same schedule is programmed for the
weekend, except that the daytime temperature
setting is 68 degrees instead of 62 degrees, on
the assumption that someone will be home on Saturday and Sunday.]
On the other side of the tape I will give you
detailed instructions for setting the program to your own preferences.
There is also a factory setting for cooling. The
factory settings for the weekdays and weekends are identical.
Morning starts at 6am with a setting of 78 degrees.
Day starts at 9 8 am. From Monday to Friday the
Day time setting is 82 85 degrees. On Saturday
and Sunday, the daytime setting is 78 degrees.
Evening starts at 4 6 pm with a setting of 78 degrees.
Night starts at 11 10 pm with a setting of 80 82 degrees.
The thermostat comes set up to tell you the
temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. You can change
the thermostat to work in degrees Celsius, which
is the temperature standard commonly used outside of the United States.
You can turn the voice prompts off if you wish,
but that will defeat the purpose of having a
thermostat that is designed for people with impaired vision.
You can activate the thermostat from across the
room by clapping twice and then saying “thermostat”.
Then you can raise or lower the temperature
settings by saying “raise” or “lower”.
You can disable the clapper feature if you don’t
want to use it. For example, you may find that
some sounds, like a loud sneeze, can cause the
thermostat to announce the current time and
temperature. If that is annoying, disable the clapper feature.
If you disable the clapper feature and you want
to activate the thermostat, you will have to
press either one of the two buttons on the front panel.
After you activate the thermostat by pressing a
button, you can change the temperature setting by
either pressing the appropriate button or by saying “raise” or “lower”.
You can adjust the volume to one of four volume control settings.
If you aren’t happy with any settings you made,
you can set the thermostat back to its factory
settings, if you want to use them or if you
simply want to start reprogramming the thermostat
using the factory settings as a starting point.
When you are through listening to this side of
the tape, please fast forward the tape to the end.
Then turn the tape over and play the other side for the operating instructions.
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Part 2: Operating Procedures.
This side of the tape has the operating
instructions for your Kelvin Thermostat. If you
can have someone change the batteries for you
once a year you will only need to learn the
simple procedure for daily operation of the
thermostat. If you can’t find someone to change
the batteries then the procedures on this tape
will teach you how to do it yourself.
As I explained on the other side of this tape,
your thermostat comes programmed at the factory
with default settings for heating and cooling.
These settings might be suitable for you. If they
aren’t, you may have had the person who installed
the thermostat reprogram it to your
specifications. If you want to change the
thermostat’s program, the procedures are on this tape.
Once the thermostat is programmed to suit your
needs, you shouldn’t have to change the program
again. For every day use, you’ll only need to
know the location of four switches to operate
your thermostat, so those are the procedures that I’ll cover first.
Operating Mode Switch
In order for the thermostat to work properly, it
needs to know whether it is controlling the
heating system or the cooling system because the
thermostat has one program for heating and
another program for cooling. Here’s how to set the Operating Mode switch:
Go to the thermostat and place a finger along any
side. Run your finger around the thermostat and
you will find that there are two switches
projecting down from the bottom side.
The switch on the right is the MODE switch. It has three positions.
The left position is COOL. If your thermostat is
set up to control an air conditioning system, and
this is the cooling season, set the switch to the Left most position.
The middle position is OFF. If you don’t want the
thermostat to control your heating or cooling
system, set the switch to the middle position.
You might want to set the thermostat off if you
are going to be away in the summer and don’t want the air conditioner to run.
You also might want to turn the thermostat off in
the winter, but please be aware that if you live
in an area where the temperature reaches below
freezing the winter and you turn your heating
system off, your pipes might freeze. In that
case, you are going to be away in the winter, you
might want to program your thermostat so that it
keeps the house at a constant temperature, for example 60 degrees.
The right position is Heat. If your thermostat is
set up to control a heating system, and this is
the heating season, set the switch to the right most position.
Fan Switch
At the bottom left of the thermostat is the FAN
switch. It has two positions, FAN AUTO and FAN ON.
Air conditioning systems always have a fan,
heating systems usually don’t. This switch allows
you to set up your system so that the fan either
runs all the time, or only when the heating or cooling system is on.
For example, if you have an air conditioning
system, your air conditioner won’t be able to
cool the air unless the air is circulating in the
ducts, bringing warm air into the air
conditioner’s coils, where it can be cooled down.
The fan must be on when the air conditioner is on.
But you might want to keep the air circulating
even when the air conditioner is off. This will
keep the cool air flowing through the ducts at
all times, so that you will feel a slight breeze
and the house will stay at a uniform temperature,
instead of building up warm areas because the air isn’t circulating.
The FAN switch allows you to make the choice.
Here is how it works.
The left Position is FAN AUTO. In this position
the fan goes on and off automatically whenever
the heating or cooling system goes on or off.
The right position is FAN ON. In this position
the fan keeps running, even if the heating or cooling system is off.
Daily Operation
Remember that your thermostat was programmed for
four different time periods each day. Morning, Daytime, Evening, and Night.
At each of these time periods the thermostat’s
temperature setting will automatically change to the programmed setting.
However, you might want to temporarily change the
thermostat setting without having to change the
program. The daily operating procedure allows you
to make a temporary change to the thermostat
setting. The change you make will be in effect
until the next time period, at which the
thermostat will automatically change to the
programmed setting for that time period.
Here’s an example: This means that you can change
the thermostat setting, for example at 2 in the
afternoon, and keep that new setting until the
evening program starts, perhaps at 6 pm. When the
evening program starts, the thermostat setting
will change to whatever is programmed for the evening.
This is a very useful feature. Here’s an example:
Suppose it’s summertime and you are having
guests. The thermostat’s program keeps the house
comfortable for you, but not cool enough if you
are going to have a few guests over. So you’d
like to change the thermostat setting to a lower
the temperature. You would like to do this about
1 hour before the guests arrive, to give the
house time to cool down to the new setting. So,
about 1 hour before the guests arrive, you change
the setting by either pushing one or two buttons
on the thermostat or by giving the thermostat a few voice commands.
The thermostat will maintain your new, temporary
setting, until the next programmed setting
starts. So if you lowered the temperature during
the daytime period, the thermostat will
automatically switch over to the programmed
setting as soon as the evening period starts. If
the evening’s setting meets your needs, you don’t
have to do anything, if not; you simply change
the thermostat’s setting again and it will remain
in effect until the next period starts, in this example, the nighttime setting.
You can change the thermostat setting using
either a Manual Operating procedure or a Voice operating procedure.
MANUAL OPERATION
To operate the thermostat manually, you only need
to press one or two buttons. These are the raise button, and the lower button.
Place your hand on the thermostat and locate the
raised disk in the center. The disk covers the thermostat’s speaker.
Move your finger to the right of the disk and
locate a large raised symbol shaped like the
letter V. Imagine the V symbol as the head of an
arrow pointing down. The symbol is on the LOWER button.
If you move your finger above the V shaped
symbol, you will feel a crack. The crack is the
top edge of the LOWER button. Move your finger
down until you find the crack that marks the
bottom edge of the button. The left edge of the
button is curved, where the button meets a
recessed area that contains the speaker.
This large area, with the V shaped symbol in the middle, is the LOWER button.
If you press anywhere on this area, you will
activate the thermostat and it will tell you the
current time, temperature, and the thermostat setting.
Here’s what it sounds like.
If you move your finger to the left side of the
thermostat, you will find another raised symbol.
This one is shaped like an upside down letter V.
Imagine the upside down V symbol as the head of
an arrow pointing up. The symbol is on the RAISE button.
The upside down V symbol is in the center of the RAISE button.
Now that you know where the raise and lower
buttons are, here is the procedure to operate the thermostat:
1. Press either button and listen to the thermostat’s message.
2. After you hear the message, you can change the
thermostat setting. To do so, you must press the
raise button or the lower button within 5 seconds after message.
3. Press the LOWER button on the right to lower
the setting by one degree, or press the RAISE
button on the left to raise the setting by one degree.
4. Each time you press a button, the thermostat
will announce the new setting. Keep pressing a
button until the thermostat is set to the temperature you want.
Please note that if you wait too long to press
the raise or lower button, you’ll hear a short
beep. That means the thermostat is no longer
waiting for a command, so when you press a
button, you’ll reactivate the thermostat and you
will hear the announcement all over again. You’ll
then have 5 seconds to press the raise or lower
button to change the thermostat setting.
Now that you know how to use the buttons, you
should be aware that you don’t have to actually
press them to change the thermostat setting.
After you hear the message, instead of pressing a
button to change the setting, all you need to do
is say either “raise” or “lower”.
VOICE OPERATION
You can do everything by voice command if you wish. Here’s the procedure:
Clap two times rapidly, like this:
(clap- Clap)
You’ll hear the thermostat make a low beep. This
means that it’s listening for a command.
When the beep sounds, just say “Thermostat”. The
thermostat will then make its announcement.
If this doesn’t work, try saying thermostat more
clearly. Experiment until you find how to do it.
The microphone is sensitive enough so it should
work from across the room without shouting.
After you hear the message, you have 5 seconds to
either raise or lower the thermostat setting.
Say the word “raise” to raise the setting by one degree.
Say the word “lower” to lower the setting by one degree.
Control Panel Buttons
Open the hinged compartment at the front of the thermostat as follows:
Put your finger at either edge of the thermostat,
near the bottom, and pull outwards. The hinged
cover will pull out and swing down, providing you
with access to the 10 buttons on the control panel.
Here’s how to locate the buttons.
At the top left there is a round button with a
raised dot. This is the Voice button.
Just below it there is a round smooth button, this is the PROGRAM button.
At the far right, there is another round button. This is the SHIFT button.
At the top center there is a row of three round
buttons. The center button has a raised dot.
The three buttons are, from left to right, SET TIME, SET DAY, SET TEMPERATURE.
At the bottom center there is a row of four
rectangular buttons. The four buttons are, from
left to right, MORNING, DAYTIME, EVENING, NIGHT.
Resetting to factory settings.
You can reset the programming and all the other
settings back to the factory settings. You might
not need to do this procedure, but I’m putting it
here because it is so similar to some of the
other procedures that you might accidentally
reset the thermostat. If you do, you’ll need to reenter all your settings.
Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right with your right hand.
Locate the rectangular MORNING button with your left hand.
The Morning button is the left most button of the
four rectangular shaped buttons at the bottom of the control panel.
If you want to reset your thermostat, hold down
the shift button with your right hand, and then
press the Morning button with your left hand. If
you hold both buttons down for 5 seconds, you’ll
hear a sound and the thermostat will be reset.
Here’s what it sounds like. (braap)
Setting the DAY
The thermostat needs to know the correct day in
order to function properly. The Day was set by
the person who installed the thermostat. In if
you reset the thermostat you will have to program
in the correct day. Here’s how to set the day:
Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
Locate the three round buttons at the top of the
control panel. The middle button has a raised dot. This is the SET DAY button.
Press the SET DAY button. The thermostat will
announce the day. Each time you press the button
the day will change. Keep pressing the button
until you have set the correct day.
SETTING THE TIME
Before you can use the thermostat, you need to
set its clock to the correct time. This was done
by the person who installed the thermostat. But
after you change the batteries the time must be set again as follows:
Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
Locate the three round buttons at the top of the
control panel. The middle button has a raised
dot. The button at the left is the SET TIME button.
To set the hour, press the SET TIME button and
hold it until the thermostat says “Set the Time”.
Now use the raise and lower buttons to change the
setting, one hour at a time, until you hear the correct hour.
To set the minute, press the SET TIME button
again until the thermostat says “Set the Time”
again. Now use the raise and lower buttons to
change the setting, one minute at a time, until you hear the correct minute.
Selecting Fahrenheit or Celsius readings.
Your thermostat comes factory set to operate
using the Fahrenheit temperature scale. You can
change it to read in degrees Celsius as follows:
Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right.
With your right hand, press and hold this button
down while you locate the SET TEMPERATURE button.
With your left hand, locate the top row of three
buttons. The button in the middle has a raised
dot. The button next to it, on the right, is the SET TEMPERATURE button.
Press this button. The thermostat will say
“Celsius” or “Fahrenheit”. Each time you press
the SET TEMPERATURE button, you will alternate
between the Fahrenheit and Celsius setting.
Temperature Swing
Your thermostat will not automatically stop
heating or cooling when the room reaches the
programmed temperature setting. It will continue
to heat or cool within 1 degree of the set
temperature to help your system work more
efficiently and minimize the number of times it
cycles on and off. The factory setting is 2
degrees, meaning heating or cooling will continue
when the thermostat’s measurement of the room
temperature is within plus or minus 1 degree from
the thermostat setting. You can set the
thermostat temperature swing setting to 1, 2, 4, or 6 degrees. Here’s how.
Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right.
With your right hand, press and hold this button
down while you locate the SET TIME button.
With your left hand, locate the top row of three
buttons. The button in the middle has a raised
dot. The button next to it, on the left, is the SET TIME button.
Press this button. The thermostat will say”1”, “2”, “4” or “6”.
Keep holding the SHIFT button with your right
hand, and press the SET TIME button until the
thermostat announces the desired number of seconds.
Air Conditioning Delay
Many air conditioners can be damaged if they are
turned off and then immediately back on. To avoid
this, after your thermostat turns the air
conditioner off, it will wait three minutes
before it turns it back on. You should not
disable this feature without professional advice,
based on your air conditioner’s manual.
The previous two procedures, one for choosing
Fahrenheit or centigrade, and one for setting the
temperature swing, are so similar to the
procedure for setting the air conditioner
display, that it you can accidentally change the
delay setting while performing one of the other
procedures. Here is the procedure for turning the
delay on and off, so you will know how to rest it
if you accidentally turn the delay off.
Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right.
With your right hand, press and hold this button
down while you locate the SET DAY button.
With your left hand, locate the top row of three
buttons. The button in the middle has a raised
dot. This is the SET DAY button.
Press this button. The thermostat will say ”Oh” or “3”.
If the thermostat says O (oh) you have set the
delay to 0 minutes and have therefore turned it off.
If the thermostat says 3, you have set the delay
to 3 minutes and therefore have turned it on.
Keep holding the SHIFT button with your right
hand, and press the SET DAY button until the
thermostat announces the desired delay. The
number 3 indicates that the delay is on.
Your thermostat has several ways of communicating
by voice. In the factory default mode, it
responds to your hand claps and your spoken
commands. It also speaks to you by giving you information and voice prompts.
You can turn the clapper function off. The
thermostat won’t recognize your hand claps, but
you can activate it with the raise and lower
buttons. You can use the raise and lower voice
commands to change the thermostat settings.
You can turn off the thermostat’s ability to
recognize your voice commands. You will have to
change the thermostat temperature settings by
pressing the raise and lower buttons, but the
thermostat will still talk to you.
Finally, you can turn off the thermostat’s voice
prompts. The thermostat will go silent and you
will have to operate it like a normal thermostat,
using the liquid crystal display to see how you are changing the settings.
You may not want to change any of these settings
from the factory defaults, but here are the
procedures. You might need one to restore a
setting if you accidentally turn it off:
VOICE PROMPTS
You can disable the voice prompts from the
thermostat. A sighted person will be able to
operate the thermostat by reading its liquid
crystal display. If you don’t hear any voice
prompts, you might have accidentally disabled
them. Here’s how to turn voice prompts on and off.
Open the hinged front cover.
Locate the VOICE button at the upper left of the
control panel. It has a raised center. Press the
button. The thermostat will day “Voice Disabled” or “Voice ON”
Each press will alternately turn the voice prompts off and on.
If you hear “voice disabled” the thermostat will no give you voice prompts.
VOICE Recognition
You can disable the thermostat’s ability to
recognize voice commands that you give it. If you
do, you will have to change the temperature
settings by pressing the “raise” and “lower” buttons.
Open the hinged front cover.
Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right.
With your right hand, press and hold this button
down while you locate the VOICE button.
Locate the VOICE button at the upper left of the
control panel. It has a raised center. Press the button.
Each press will alternately turn the voice recognition off and on.
You will hear “voice disabled” or “voice on” to tell you what the setting is.
If you hear “voice disabled” you will no longer
be able to adjust the thermostat setting by
saying “raise” or “lower” and you won’t be able
to use the clapper function to operate the thermostate.
Clapper ON/OFF
If you don’t want the thermostat to activate when
you clap your hands twice, you can disable the
clapper feature. You might find that with the
clapper feature enabled, some sounds, like a
sneeze, might activate the thermostat.
If you disable the clapper you will have to press
the RAISE or the LOWER button to activate the
thermostat. You can still say “raise” or “lower”
to change the thermostat settings.
Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right.
With your right hand, press and hold this button
down while you locate the EVENING button.
With your left hand, locate the bottom row of
four rectangular buttons. The third button from
the left is the EVENING button. Press this button.
You won’t hear a sound, but the clapper function
will be disabled. Press the button again and you
will hear a tick sound. When you hear this sound
the clapper function is enabled.
VOLUME
You can adjust the volume of the thermostat’s voice messages:
Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right.
With your right hand, press and hold this button
down while you locate the PROGRAM button.
With your left hand find the round button at the
left side. Note that there are two round buttons;
one on top has a raised dot. The one on the bottom is the Program button.
Press the PROGRAM button and you will hear a
beep. Each time you press this button the
thermostat will beep and will be set to a new
volume level. There are four volume levels. You
will need to experiment to find the one you like the best.
PROGRAMMING THE THERMOSTAT
You can program the thermostat to change the
thermostat setting up to four times in a single
day. There are 7 buttons that allow you to enter
information into the program. There is an
additional button, the PROGRAM button, which you
must press after you are done entering the
information. If you don’t press the PROGRAM
button, none of the information that you entered
will be saved, and you will have to enter it all over again.
The thermostat allows you to program it in two
different ways. The first method is the weekdays
and weekends method. In this method you select
the weekdays and enter the beginning times and
the thermostat temperature settings for the
Morning Daytime, Evening, and night time periods.
Then you press the PROGRAM button and your
entries are saved and applied to each weekday, Monday through Friday.
Then you select the weekends and enter your data.
When you press the POGRAM button, your entries
are saved and are applied to Saturday and Sunday.
The second method is the individual day’s method.
In this method you can select any day of the week
and enter any program you want for that day. When
you press the PROGRAM button, your information is
saved and it is applied only to the day that you selected.
If you want most of your weekdays or weekends to
have the same program, except for one or two
differences, you can use the weekdays and
weekends method to quickly program your
thermostat, and then you can use the individual
day’s method to change the specific days that you want to program differently.
For example; suppose you only work from Monday to
Wednesday and you want to sleep later on Thursday
and Friday. You can program all of your weekdays
exactly the same using the weekday’s method, and
then you can change the program for Thursday so
that your morning begins an hour later. That will
make your thermostat wait an hour before it
raises the heat. Then you do the same thing for Friday.
Here’s the procedure to do the programming:
Open the hinged compartment at the front of the thermostat.
At the top center there is a row of three round
buttons. The center button has a raised dot.
The three buttons are, from left to right, SET TIME, SET DAY, SET TEMPERATURE.
At the bottom center there is a row of four
rectangular buttons. The four buttons are, from
left to right, MORNING, DAYTIME, EVENING, NIGHT.
At the far left, at the bottom, is a round
button. This is the PROGRAM button. It does not have a raised dot.
You will use these buttons to select the items to
be programmed. To change a time setting or a
temperature setting, you will use the large raise
and lower buttons on the front of the thermostat.
These are the buttons with the raised V shaped
symbol and the raised upside down V shaped symbol.
To more easily use this program, please memorize
that the bottom four rectangular buttons read,
from left to right, Morning, Daytime, Evening, and Night.
Also please memorize that the three round buttons
on the top read, from left to right, SET TIME, SET DAY, and SET TEMPERATURE.
Here’s how to program all the weekdays so that each day is the same
Press the MORNING button, the rectangular button on the Left.
Press the SET DAY button, the middle round button with the raised dot.
Press the SET TIME button. The left round button.
Press the raise and lower buttons, as necessary
to set the time that the Morning begins.
Press the SET TEMP button, the right round button.
Press the raise and lower buttons, as necessary
to set the thermostat temperature for the morning hours.
Press the DAYTIME button, the second rectangular button.
Press the SET TIME button on the left and use the
raise and lower buttons to set the time that the Daytime period begins.
Press the SET TEMPERATUR button on the right and
use the raise and lower buttons to set the
thermostat setting for the daytime hours.
The thermostat will announce a day, or a series
of days. Each time you press the SET DAY button,
the announcement will change. Press this button
until the thermostat says all the days from Monday through Friday.
BATTERY REPLACEMENT
Before you change the batteries, obtain four
fresh size AA batteries. You will remove the
thermostat from the wall to change the batteries,
so put the batteries on the table where you will work.
You will also need to pry the old batteries out
of the battery compartment, so get a small
screwdriver or a teaspoon or fork. You can use
the back of the spoon or fork as a pry bar.
Arrange the batteries in a row with the ends with
projecting knows facing away from you, so that
all the batteries are facing the same way.
Now take the second battery from the left and
turn it around so that the projecting know is
facing you. Do the same thing with the fourth battery, the one on the right.
The batteries are now arranged in the position
they must be inserted into the thermostat.
Now, go to the thermostat.
In order to change the batteries, you have to
remove the thermostat’s body from the mounting
plate. The mounting plate is screwed to the wall.
The thermostat is connected to the mounting plate
by two plastic hinges at the top. These hinges are not accessible to you.
The thermostat is fastened to the mounting plate
by two latches at the bottom. You will release
these latches so that you can swing the thermostat up on its hinges.
There are two areas that you need to press on to release the latches.
Here’s how to remove the thermostat.
Place your hands at the sides of the thermostat
with your thumbs at the bottom of the thermostat.
Your thumbs will locate the two switches that
project from the bottom of the thermostat.
Move your thumbs behind those switches, closer to
the wall, and locate a slight depression under each thumb.
Grasp the thermostat firmly with your fingers,
and press upwards with your thumbs. This will
release two catches under the depressions. Then
swing the thermostat up and out.
Place the thermostat face down on a table in front of you.
At the back of the thermostat there is a large
depression. Orient the thermostat so that the depression is at the top.
At the bottom of the thermostat there are two
raised tabs. Between these tabs is the latch to the battery compartment cover.
The latch sticks up from a slight depression.
Hold the thermostat with one hand and push in on
the latch with the thumbnail of your other hand.
When the latch releases pull up on it and the hinged cover will open.
Inside the battery compartment are four size AA
batteries. You must remove these batteries and
install new ones in the correct orientation.
As you remove a battery, discard it so that it
doesn’t get mixed up with the new batteries on
your table. Here’s how to remove a battery.
Move your hand over the batteries and note that
they are close to each other but they don’t touch.
Take a small screwdriver or the back of a utensil
and put it into the space between two batteries.
Pry one of the batteries loose and it should pop
out of its retaining clips. Discard the battery.
Remove the other batteries the same way.
Install the new batteries as follows:
First run your hand over the bottom of the
battery compartment and note that there are four
depressions. You will point a battery into each depression.
Take the battery on the left in one hand. Make
sure the end with the knob is pointing away from
you. Put the battery in the depression at the
left side of the battery compartment.
Push the battery down until it snaps in place.
Pick up the next battery and install it in the
second depression, the one next to the battery
you just installed. Make sure that the end with
the projecting knob is pointed towards you.
Install the next battery in the third depression.
Make sure that the end with the projecting knob is pointed away from you.
Install the last battery in the last depression.
Make sure that the end with the projecting knob is pointed towards you.
Swing down the battery compartment cover and push it closed until it latches.
Turn the thermostat over and praise one of the
raised symbols on the left or right side of the thermostat.
If you hear an announcement, then the batteries were properly installed.
At 11:27 AM 3/8/2015, you wrote:
>Hi my name is Samantha and I was hoping someone on this list could help me
>with something? I have a kalvin talking thermostat I bought from independent
>living aids and I lost the manual does anyone know where I can get it on the
>internet. Please not a pdf I don't know how to read those. Thank you. Any
>help is grately appreciated.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-talk
>Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 10:10 PM
>To: Annette Carr; Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Home security systems
>
>well annette, I don't have an answer. but the frustration of inaccessibility
>
>is widespread.
>At todays convention session, a resolution passed regarding a demand for
>accessible security systems.
>Wish I had an answer. I would guess a system where you can punch in your
>code as you come in would work. you could label buttons as long as its not
>touch screen.
>
>Ashley
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Annette Carr via Electronics-talk
>Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 7:41 PM
>To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
>Subject: [Electronics-talk] Home security systems
>
>Hello All,
>
>
>
>Does anyone have recommendations for a company that offers a home security
>system that is accessible via some other means than having to see the
>display on the control panel? I'm thinking that if it announced what
>command was just executed, that would be great. I know that some systems
>will allow you to dial into it from your phone, but I want more
>accessibility than this.
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Annette
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