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Selecting a PA System to announce to
Selecting a PA System to announce to

How to choose which PA to make announcements to.

Michael A. Leonetti avatar
Written by Michael A. Leonetti
Updated over a week ago

To select a PA system to announce to, you need to first be in the PA system selection screen.

Please note that if you previously had a PA system selected, this step is not necessary. Your previously selected PA system choice is kept per session unless you've logged out of the App and logged back in.

To browse to the PA system selection screen, tap on the following icon located at the bottom navigation bar of your App.

Now, you should see a list of all the different schools you have access to and a list of PA system devices in that school. It should look something like below.
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If you don't see any PA systems in the list, but just the name(s) of your school(s) listed, simply tap on the name of your school. All of the PA systems you can announce to will appear.

Understanding the icons

In each PA system line you will find the icon indicating whether or not the PA system is selected. A selected PA system will look like the following icons found to the left:

An unselected PA system will look like this: 

Next, to the right of the PA system name you will see a red or blue icon indicating whether or not the Sonarcloud device attached to your PA system is online. The offline icon appears in red, and the online icon appears in blue. You will see an icon that looks like this:

A note about Sonarcloud system statuses 

 Your Sonarcloud device attached to your PA systems is monitored by the Sonarcloud team 24/7. The App also gives insight on the status of the device. For example, alerts that your Sonarcloud device has gone down (gone offline) or come back up (come online) will also be shown in the App. This can be very helpful in debugging when announcements do not seem to be playing over the PA system.

Selecting PA systems

To select a PA system, simple tap on the name of the PA system. Multiple PA systems can be selected at once to announce to where available.

Note that your PA system selection will be saved in your App as long as you do not log out of your user. You need only select the PA system once.

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