Complete control and management of your Advanced eXperience bell ringing system from anywhere you have a connected web browser.
Feature list
This lists includes all features which may be limited by user privilege, subscription level and system model.
- Portal and ringing system secured with strong encryption
- User management
- Home - reflects the user's functionality of the mobile remote control
- Custom front panel and remote menus per user
- Music
- Searchable catalog with play functions
- Organize music in albums
- Upload or delete music
- SmartAlmanac™ plays appropriate music throughout the year
- Create and edit seasonal start and end dates
- Add and remove albums from seasons
- Schedule
- Create and edit weekly, monthly, annual and single events
- Configure Time Strike and Angelus ringing
- Review history to determine what has played and what is going to play - and review why:
- if selection triggered automatically or manually
- if automatically, the reviewer may change the time of the event
- if the hymn is a SmartAlmanac seasonal selection, then prompts from the timeline are provided to
- remove the selection from the album it played from
- ban the selection from SmartAlmanac performances
- remove the album from the current season
- change the season's dates
- if selection triggered automatically or manually
- Keyboard performance and recording
- customize settings
- System settings
- System security and feature updates
- Automatic backups
Subscriptions
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Remote from anywhere | YES | YES |
| Multiple users | YES | YES |
| Schedule management | YES | YES |
| Customizable SmartAlmanac™ music librarian | YES | YES |
| MIDI file loading support per model | Millennium and Platinum | Millennium and Platinum |
| Audio file loading support per model | Platinum | Platinum |
| Software updates | YES | YES |
| Backup schedule and settings | no | YES |
| Backup audio and recordings | no | YES |
| Custom Ringing editor | no | YES |
| Complex Schedule management | no | Optional |
| Factory technician programming | pay per request | unlimited |
Feature descriptions
Multiple Users
Chime Center provides multiple users to each have a customized menu of functionality. The administrator can create additional user accounts for system access from the front panel, remote control and Chime Center. Each user will see a unique screen and options. Users can have a range of permissions including the ability to edit their own home screen. Remote access by each user can be limited by day of the week and valid hours.
User customization
The following features are user's home screen options:
- Schedule - removal prevents user from modifying schedules
- Settings - removal prevents user from modifying system settings
- Keyboard - removal prevents user from using the keyboard
- Quick functions can be set per user for needed manual bell ringing
User privilege levels
- Administrator
- Invite other users (via valid email)
- set their privilege level
- set their screen unlock PIN code
- customize their screen
- Unlimited system settings and scheduling
- Power User
- Feature options enabled by Administrator
- Remote control access
- Play selection (manual play)
- Keyboard performance and recording options
- Scheduling
- Music librarian and SmartAlmanac™ season editing
- System settings
- Basic User
- No access to schedulers or settings
- Optional remote control access
- Optional keyboard mode access
- Optional Play selection access
- Home and remote screen set by administrator
- Usage times set by administrator
SmartAlmanac seasonal music
Add, disable or edit liturgical seasons. Manage seasonal music by creating, editing and assigning music albums to seasons.
Media loading
Millennium and Platinum systems support MIDI file chime and carillon arrangements made with popular notation software. Platinum systems support audio files that can be used for music, announcements or warning signals.
Software updates
The system will accept regular updates, as they are released, to improve functionality and enhance security. No user interaction is required.
Backups
All systems will have their schedule database backed up regularly. In the event the system should need replaced, the replacement will be restored from previous system schedule backups.
Complete backup
Managed and Premium subscribers will have their uploaded files as well as keyboard recordings backed up along with the database, which requires additional Chime Center storage.
Premium features
Premium subscribers have the following additional features:
- Custom Ringing editor
- Create different lengths of swinging and tolling bells
- Create your own combinations of swinging bells
- Create your own clock chiming melodies
- Create your own Angelus or prayer bells
- Complex Scheduling
- Ninety-five percent of users will be more than satisfied with our standard scheduling features. Premium Chime Center subscribers can have more sophisticated scheduling management menus providing seasonal schedule variations.
- Worship and Mass times can be scheduled differently during a scheduling season.
- Normal Worship and Mass times can be inhibited during a scheduling season.
- Time strikes and Angelus styles and schedules can be modified during scheduling seasons.
- Chime Center must be used to review and edit seasonal schedules.
- The front panel scheduling screens can only review and edit the non-seasonal schedule.
Factory management
Factory management requires the ringing system to be Internet connected. After consulting with our customer service representatives by phone or email, you can expect the programming to be completed within two business days.
- Premium subscribers may use this service as much as they need it at no additional charge.
- Free subscribers will be charged for schedule and setting changes per request.
Requirements
- Chime Master Advanced eXperience touchscreen bell ringing system.
- Both the ringing system and browser accessing Chime Center must have internet connections.
- Up-to-date Internet browser (Chrome preferred) running on
- Desktop or laptop PC or Linux
- Desktop or laptop MacOS
- Chromebook
- Tablet (Android or iOS)