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Crawl Font – Defaults to one. 
Set from 1 to 4. 
 
Char Color – Defaults to white. 
 
Set Color Background by EAS Severity? – Defaults to disabled. When enabled, the text color is 
determined based on a color selection set for the EAS severity category. 
 
Iterations – Defaults to one. Crawl is done once. 
Set from 1 to 100. 
 
Speed – Defaults to Fast. 
Choose from three speeds: Fast, Medium or Slow. 
 
VDS Mode – Defaults to VDS840. 
Select from VDS840, VDS830, Starmu/Star8 and Sage Emulation. The Sage Emulation mode has an 
optional page of text that can be programmed. 
 
Vertical position – Defaults to video 20. 
Set from 20 (topmost) to 208 (bottommost). 
 
Serial Port Baud Rate – Defaults to 9600 Select 9600 or 19200 baud depending on the remote CODI 
device requirements. 
 
Serial Port Bit Config Rate – Set data bits and stop bits depending on the remote VDS device 
requirements. 
 
Delay crawl – Defaults to disabled. When enabled, the crawl is delayed until after the EAS audio 
header and attention two-tone signal is played. 
 
Repeat Alert Video Display – Defaults to Do Not Repeat. 
Select from a set of options for repeating the data write to the remote device after a pause period set 
from the Set Alert Video Repetition Period field. The repeat period has to be at least 2 minutes. 
 
5. Sage Generic CG Attribute Settings 
Serial Port Baud Rate – Defaults to 9600. Select 9600 or 19200 baud depending on the remote device 
requirements. 
 
Serial Port Flow Control – Select Hardware or Software or None depending upon the hardware 
support on the remote device. 
 
Throttle down serial port write speed – Defaults to disabled. 
When Enabled, data is written with pauses between 128 byte blocks. This can be helpful when sending 
this to devices that cannot do flow control. 
 
Iterations – Defaults to one. Crawl is done once. 
Set from 1 to 5. 
 
Repeat Alert Video Display – Defaults to Do Not Repeat. 
Select from a set of options for repeating the data write to the remote device after a pause period set 
from the Set Alert Video Repetition Period field. The repeat period has to be at least 2 minutes. 
 
6. Sage News Room Attribute Settings 
Immediate display upon matching decoded alert – Defaults to disabled. When enabled, data for 
matching FIPS and EAS filtered alerts is sent to the remote device using the Sage News Room 
protocol. 
 
Serial Port Baud Rate – Defaults to 9600. Select 9600 or 19200 baud depending on the remote device 
