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Home station/changing the ringtone and voice function volume
How can the volume of the ringtone or voice function be changed?
The type of home station dictates whether and how the ringtone or voice function volume can be change. “Standard home station” with receiver: Only the ringtone volume can be changed. The voice volume is preset and cannot be changed. To change the ringtone volume, press the light operating button for approx. three seconds with the receiver off the hook. “Home station with hands-free function” and “Komfort home station” with receiver: Both the ringtone and voice volume can be changed. To make the changes, press the volume button.
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Gira video home station Plus
The Gira home station enables you to talk to your visitors and let them in – even while you are on the move.
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Internal calls cannot be made on the “surface-mounted audio” home station.
This can be done with our flush-mounted audio home stations 1280xx
and our surface-mounted video stations 1239xx and flush-mounted video stations.
Call force-through is not necessary with the Standard and Komfort home stations with receiver. This is because there are fundamental differences in speech transmission between the home station with hands-free function and a home station with receiver. The home station with hands-free function uses what is known as an echo suppressor. This means that, in voice mode, there are two voice ICs working together (1x in the home station with hands-free function, 1x in the door station). The voice ICs detect when speech is transmitted from the door station. The microphone pathway of the home station with hands-free function is muffled. In this case, in order to force the call from the home station through to the door station, you need to exceed the preset volume level. Normally, this is not an issue as, during a call, the person at the door has finished speaking before the person in the house answers. However, this becomes problematic if the person speaking at the door station has finished but the background noise (e.g. car noise) is so loud that the noise level does not drop sharply. As the microphone pathway is still considerably muffled in this case, the person at the home station must speak significantly more loudly for their call to go through. The force-through function helps here; it technically cancels the microphone pathway muffling and allows you to easily force the call from the home station through to the door station. This function is not required in home stations with receiver as the microphone circuit is not muffled in this way. For the version with receiver, it is fundamentally easier to force through a call from the home station to the door station, even if there are loud background noises.
The surface-mounted home station with hands-free function has five ringtone melodies that can be individually assigned to the floor-call button, the call buttons on the door station or the internal call buttons of other home stations. In a household with multiple people for example, this allows you to assign each person their own door station call button (e.g. parents, children) with individual ringtone melody.
To set a ringtone melody, follow these steps:
1) Sound the ringtone for which you want to change the melody. To do this, press the relevant call button that was previously taught in.
2) To change the melody of the most recently triggered ringtone, press the button for ringtone deactivation on the home station and hold it down.
3) Within three seconds of this, press the light button and hold both buttons down until you hear the new ringtone melody.
4) To select the next ringtone melody, repeat steps 2 and 3. Each time you press the buttons (ringtone deactivation and light button), a new ringtone melody is set. Once you reach the last ringtone melody, the first melody will be set the next time you press the buttons. Note: When deleting a call button allocation for the home station, the corresponding ringtone melody is reset to the factory setting.
The surface-mounted video home station Plus offers ten ringtone melodies in WAVE format pre-installed on the SD card. All ringtone melodies can be changed.
You can hear the ringtone melodies here: https://www.gira.de/data3/rufmelodien_1239xx.zip.
A Western plug is used to connect the receiver to the receiver cable. If this plug is not correctly connected to the receiver, the bell signal may be very quiet. However, voice communication is not necessary impaired as a result.
To resolve the problem, check that the Western plug is connected properly. The plug must click into the receiver socket twice so that it fits flush.
Electrical devices may only be installed by a qualified electrician. Please see the information at: https://www.gira.de/service/bauherren/installationshinweis.html
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