Qolsys IQ Panel 4: Configuring the Slideshow (Photo Frame) Feature

hey diyers Dylan here with alarm grid today we're going to go over how to uh how do I enable the photo frame mode on my iq4 panel uh so what this does is that you can upload certain images to the actual panel to act as a screen saver there are some default images on here I'm going to show you how to access those how to upload your own and how to adjust the settings for this option Okay so so we have our IQ panel 4 here uh so we'll start by first going to the actual photo frame option so to do that you'll press the top Gray Bar photo frame is right there in the center uh Center all right so we have some preloaded images here um the system can only hold a certain amount of images so if you're wanting to upload your own custom ones it's good to actually delete the ones from the panel first uh so what to do for that is that we will go ahead and press delete select all delete and then the green check mark there and then like I mentioned it does hold a limited amount of photos so the actual number for that is 18 so 18 in total can be uploaded all right so to upload the images from your phone uh you'll want to go ahead and press add on the iq4 all right so we will press this drop down right here here we're going to go to panel AP uh so this is going to allow us to connect to the system through the AP mode so to do that we'll First Press Start okay uh so now you can scan the QR code or manually enter this information I will go ahead and scan the code it may appear a little blurry as my camera is not in the best shape right now so we join this just make sure that's joined okay it is perfect we'll go back to camera and we will scan the second QR code all right okay so after scanning the second QR code it will bring us to this page here uh now I am using Safari and I also tested this with chrome did get a similar um it'll show up as essentially an error screen it's going to say the connection is not private if that does show up uh all you will need to do is press show details and then near the bottom of the page you will see connect uh or connect to website showing as an option as well so if you do get an error saying the connection is not private just press show details and then you'll see on that second page the option to then connect with the website uh when you do that it will then bring you to this page here here we will press choose files photo library going to select some images and then press add uh now the images do have to be a certain size to actually upload so they need to be under 1440 by 2560 if they were over that size you you will receive a secondary error after you press send image files uh my images are the correct size so send image files okay perfect so that showed that they successfully went over to the panel so I'm going to stop the AP mode on the panel okay we'll go to home all right so now we're going to go back to photo frame so top Gray Bar photo frame okay we see the images I uploaded are here uh so we can view them okay you can also press play that's just going to start the automatic Scroll of the images uh I have it right now set to about one minute and then I'll scroll over if we tap on it'll bring us back uh now if you want this to be essentially a screen saver for the panel you can go to settings uh and then here are all of our options here so duration that's what I was just mentioning this is how long an image is going to show on the panel before it switches to the next one 1 minute 2 minute 5 minutes effect uh so dissolve or Fade to Black that's going to be how they're going to change over to the next one uh you have a shuffle option so it can go either in order or it will just do randomly uh down here display type so this is uh so when the panel is going to go to essentially like sleep mode uh you can select what's going to show on on the screen so either off the panel is going to just go black photo frame is going to show our images or weather clock it's going to show weather and the clock the start time here so how long uh until the actual screen saver starts so if no action is performed at the panel it's going to switch over to the um the uh screen saver our options here one minute 5 minute 10 minutes 15 25 uh 20 25 and 30 nighttime Mode start time so what this does is that this will disable this feature uh so say it's nighttime you don't want the images to be going across the screen you just want the panel to not really do anything uh so say if you're sleeping you don't really want the brightness of the screen so you can select a certain start time for this by default it's 11: p.m but you can change it to whatever time you'd like and then uh end time when you want that feature to disable so the system can start functioning again again you can select whatever time you want with this 6 a.m. all right and then Night 10 mode settings so this is essentially saying what is going to be turned off so display voices Chimes LEDs you can select all these if you want or whichever ones you'd like and when nighttime mode activates everything selected will be disabled okay so that is how we configure uh the photo frame option on our iq4 panel uh we showed how to access the feature we deleted the default options there we uploaded our own images to the panel configured the options and got our screen saver active uh for the system itself if you did like the video please like the video sub subscribe to our YouTube channel and press the Bell icon to be notified about any future videos we upload if you had any questions feel free to contact us our contact phone number is 888 81877 28 our email address is support@alarmgrid.com and if you come to our website www. alarmgrid do.com we have a live chat option on there as well so feel free to use any of those to contact us and we'll be happy to assist you again my name is Dylan from alarm grid and thank you for watching