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To Edit the ALOHASPY.INI Text File
1. Right-click My Computer and then click Explore.
2. Click the \ALOHA directory.
3. From the File menu, click New and then click Text Document.
4. Type ALOHASPY.INI and then press Enter.
5. Double-click ALOHASPY.INI to edit the file with the Notepad application.
6. Type the command lines according to the specifications as described above.
7. From the File menu, click Save.
8. From the File menu, click Exit.
DVR/NVR Server Side Setup
1. Click Setup on the Main Display screen of the DVR or NVR software.
2. Click General.
3. Click POS Setup to open the POS Setup window.
4. Click Setup POS Agent to open the Communication Status window.
5. Set the Protocol to Aloha and then click Setup.
6. On the Save tab, click Save Location and configure the save options and then click Apply.
Note The default save location – C:\ – is the recommended save location.
7. Click the Communications tab and set the POS ID to the register number you are connecting to and the Type as RS-232. Click
Add to open the RS-232 window.
8. In the RS-232 window select the COM Port that the Aloha BOH Server is connected to, and confirm that the Match Workstation
ID check box is selected.
9. Type the Terminal ID in the Workstation ID box and click OK.
10. Click the Communications tab in the Option window and select the POS ID just added and then click Property to open the
COM Properties window.
11. Configure the communication settings for the Aloha BOH server you are connecting to and click OK.
(Default settings are: 9600, 8, None, 1)
12. On the Communications tab, select the POS ID just added and then click Rules.
13. Click User Define and enter the last item located on EVERY receipt printed and then click OK. (This updates the RediWatch
POS Database with the current receipt information.)
Caution Failure to properly define the last item printed (example: phone number or address) will result in improperly recorded data.
14. Repeat steps 7-13 until all registers have been added and then click Apply and OK.
15. Exit open windows to return to the POS Setup window.
16. In the POS Setup window, select a camera under Channel and assign it a register under POS.
17. Repeat step 16 until all registers have been assigned to a camera.
18. Click OK to save the current settings and close the POS Setup window.
19. Click Exit to return to the Main Display screen of the DVR. Incoming transaction data should now be displayed on cameras with
registers assigned to them.