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Venus Public Alerts: How do account owners enable alerts in Venus Control Suite?

Topic

  • How can account owners enable alerts in Venus Control Suite?
 

Environment

  • Product: Venus Basic, Venus Select, Venus Professional, Venus Enterprise
  • Components: Emergency Alerts (NCMEC, IPAWS)
  • Control System: Venus Cloud-Based, Venus Local
IPAWS or Integrated Public Alert and Warning System unifies the United States' Emergency Alert System, National Warning System, Wireless Emergency Alerts, and NOAA Weather Radio, under a single platform. 

🛠️Account administrators have access to change the display's settings.

Steps

Account administrators and display level users can enable alerts.   The steps below are for how to enable alerts for parent / administrator accounts.

  1. Log into Venus Control Suite. See: Venus Control Suite: How do I log in? .

  2. Click on the Venus icon from My Apps.  
  3. Click on Settings from the main menu.
  4. Click on Alert Management section.

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  1. Toggle to On to enable alerts.
  2. From this location, users can see a sample of what the alert looks like.  All alerts will be text only and the format is dependent on the size of the display. 

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  1. Click Accept.  
  2. ​​​​​​​Place a check in front of the type of alerts you would like for your display.
  3. ​​​​​​​Enter your exclusive/ rotational preferences. 

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  1. Click Save.

  2. Now the Alerts have been enabled at the account level.  Displays will need to configure the playlist setting and location. See: Venus Displays: How do I enable Emergency Alerts in Venus Control Suite.

Related Resources

Venus Public Alerts: How do I set a current IPAWS alert as inactive or active for my display?

Venus Public Alerts: How to enable Emergency Alerts in Venus Control Suite.  (at the display level)

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