Filter Warning

[rcarlton]

A filter warning popped up on my Promethean Board yesterday. I cleaned the one filter on the back of the projector, yet the warning icon was still there this morning. Any ideas?

[excelteacher]

You may need to change the reminder setting by going into the Control Panel by clicking on the Activmanager (icon of a Promethean board) in the menubar. Click on Control Panel>Projector. You will see the Project Warning checked, and you have the option to "Display a warning: Weekly, Fortnightly, or Monthly." hth...

[GeoKBehnke]

We have HP projectors which have their own warning mechanism which actually measures the air flow and notices when we clean the filters. As a result, we have turned off the message in the ActiManager-Control Panel - Projector window.

[pbaddhan]

We have a similar problem with the projector filter warning message. Every time a new user logins to the PC attached to the whiteboard the projector filter warning message appears. Is there a way via a registry setting to stop the projector filter warning message from appearing without going through the activmanager control panel?

[uufsdtech]

Anyone know of a way to disable this in a transform package for the driver install? The message is harmless, but is a pain...

[mumra79]

A filter warning popped up on my Promethean Board yesterday. I cleaned the one filter on the back of the projector, yet the warning icon was still there this morning. Any ideas?

This sounds more like the warning that is built in to the projector rather than the warning that is incorporated into the ActivManager driver. If you go into the Settings Menu on your projector, see if you have an option to reset the Filter Warning.

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[uufsdtech]

OK All: I found this on edugeek.com's forums:


For those looking to disable the all-new, more aggressive filter warning in ActivDriver version 5, here's how it's set:

When the ActivMgr executable which sits in your systray loads up, it looks in two locations for a file called Activmanager.ini in

%appdata%\Promethean\

and

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Promethean\

Typically there won't be a file in All Users and, annoyingly, even if there is one it is overridden by the settings in the user's %appdata%. This means you might need to delete any existing settings files in people's profiles before putting your settings file in All Users.

The settings the file can control (amongst other things):

Disabling the filter warning

Disabled:

Code:
projector.use=false

Enabled:

Code:
projector.use=true

Setting how often the filter warning pops up

Monthly:

Quote:
projector.warningPeriod=2
Fortnightly:

Code:
projector.warningPeriod=1

Weekly:

Code:
projector.warningPeriod=0