Unison Legacy Questions...

We are working with a ETC unison legacy system. As much as I would love to upgrade to Paradigm thats not an option. We have roughly 20 button panels and 4 touch screen panels. A rather costly project. Anyways to my questions...

Am I able to download the software to reconfigure the systems? I recall when I was in high school we had to call someone from etc to come by and reprogram our paradigm. As the software he was using was only given to ETC service guys. Do I need to make this call and have someone come out or can I do it myself?

Second, I know I am able to password protect the touchscreen stations on the paradigm. Can I do this on the unison? Pleaseeeeeeeeee tell me you can.

Thanks!

ETC only provides the software to factory-trained service techs. Users may get access to it as well only after taking the factory training and likely paying an additional fee. This is a quality control process to minimize the risk of someone bricking their system or inadvertently blowing out their configuration file. You will probably need to pay for a service call to have a trained technician make the changes to your system.

There is a way to password a screen page, you set the screen visibility lower and require an access to change that, if memory serves.

Maybe if you ask ETC nicely, or your service center, they'll send you Light Manager. It's really, really old software, needs a vintage Windows machine that runs 32bit, an external floppy drive, etc....

If you backup to floppy the current ER4 configuration you could potentially (if you get the LM software) make changes, try it, if it doesn't work re-load the backed up config file.

Back in 2000 something I received factory training for light manager. I think my software is running on an old windows 98 computer that may or may not work.

At that time you could Send ETC a copy of your file and they would tweak it. However you would need to know all the addresses and what you want them to do. You will need to call them to see if they still do that.

For a few years I ran LM on a virtual version of XP. YMMV

I don't recommend trying to learn LM. It's got some serious complications that only experience teaches. The risks far out weigh the rewards.