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 All-in-one is
the operative term for this unit, it is a neat little package of about 8”H
x3.5”W x3”D with a clean modern look to it. It come with a snap on/off wall
mounting bracket and a simple 3”x2” 43 page booklet style manual that
covers the installation/operation details of the unit nicely (here
is a link to a .pdf of it).
There is no wall mounting template, trust me you won’t need it with the
included bracket. There is no external power supply, this unit is PoE only. If you don’t have a PoE switch
to connect it to you will have to pick up a third-party PoE injector.
When I un-boxed the unit in my lab I
briefly perused the little manual and discovered the unit has both an html
interface and five “Program Buttons” on the back. After plugging it into my
network and waiting (very briefly) for it to boot up I pressed the second
button from the right three times to get “ Device Info” and the unit
verbally read me it’s dhcp delivered IP address. I typed that into a web
browser and up came the “8180 SIP Audio Alerter Control Panel”.
Notice in the “Login” section that the
default password is displayed? How handy is that? Somebody has had to look
up default passwords too many times and came up with a great idea! Shortly
after this came up I was logged in, and shortly after that I had changed
that password, I was after all installing this unit in a public school and
those places are full of little mini hackers who would have a great time
controlling a loud ringer and paging unit.
The web interface is clean, direct and
simple to use with tabs across the top, each with appropriate sub choices
and fill-in-the-blank fields with radio button controls. Within ten minutes
of powering the unit up I had it attached to two SIP accounts on my
Asterisk server and could dial either extension to page or loud ring. And
man was the thing LOUD. Fortunately the volume is independently adjustable
through the web interface or the program buttons:
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