^SQ - Halt ZebraNet Alert

Stops or restarts the alerts `^SX` configured, without discarding their configuration.

^SQ stops the alerts ^SX configured and starts them again, and leaves their configuration alone. It is the pause button for the ZebraNet alert system, not a way to remove an alert. The destination, the address and the port all survive a halt.

Syntax

^SQa,b,c

Support

Recognised, deliberately skippedparsed: none · state: none · rendered: none

Accepted and skipped, because it configures the printer rather than the label. It cannot change the rendered output, and Labelary skips it too.

Alerts travel on a printer-to-host channel, and nothing they carry reaches the label. The renderer does not parse this command. It reports IGNORED_COMMAND at info severity, which does not reach X-Warnings. Labelary is also silent, so the rendered label is identical in both engines. — not pinned by a test

Labelary renders this command.

Parameters

aConditionrequired · one of a set

Which error condition's alert to stop or start. * covers all of them.

Invalid value: not documented, and we have not measured it. The renderer does not parse or measure this command. The guide gives no default.
Test coverage: No documented value is exercised by a test (A-W, *).

A-W: A single error condition, identified by letter
*: Every error condition

bDestinationrequired · one of a set

Which alert destination to stop or start.

Invalid value: not documented, and we have not measured it. The renderer does not parse or measure this command. The guide gives no default.
Test coverage: No documented value is exercised by a test (A, B, C, D, E, F, *).

A: Serial port
B: Parallel port
C: Email
D: TCP
E: UDP
F: SNMP
*: Every destination

cStopoptional · Y or N

Whether the command stops or restarts the matching alerts.

Default: Y
Invalid value: not documented, and we have not measured it. The renderer does not parse or measure this command.
Test coverage: No documented value is exercised by a test (Y, N).

Y: Stop the alerts (default)
N: Start them again

Behavior

Both selectors accept *, which is the usual form: ^SQ*,*,Y stops everything and ^SQ*,*,N starts everything again. Narrower combinations halt one condition on one destination, and the condition letters are the same set ^SX uses — see that command for each letter.

An alert travels a printer-to-host channel and nothing it carries reaches the label, so the renderer ignores this command. ^SQ also needs a prior ^SX to have any effect on hardware, because otherwise no alert exists to halt.

Example

Every alert on every destination halted:

^XA
^SQ*,*,Y
^FO50,50^A0N,30,30^FDAlerts halted^FS
^XZ

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^SX Set AlertConfigures where the printer reports an error condition: serial, parallel, email, TCP, UDP or SNMP.
^JH Early Warning SettingsConfigures the consumable and maintenance warnings the printer reports as media, ribbon and printhead wear out.
^NT Set SMTPPoints the printer at an SMTP server so it can e-mail alerts.