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title: "Introduction to Configuration Menu"
slug: "introduction-to-configuration-menu-13"
updated: 2026-03-17T03:13:00Z
published: 2026-03-17T03:13:00Z
canonical: "knowledge.akuvox.com/introduction-to-configuration-menu-13"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://knowledge.akuvox.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction to Configuration Menu

- **Quick Start**: This section provides quick access to the device’s key settings, such as network, user, relay, etc.
- **Device Management**:
  - **Status**: This section gives you basic information, such as product information, network information, call log, door log, etc.
  - **Account**: This section concerns the SIP account, SIP server, proxy server, transport protocol type, audio and video codec, DTMF, etc.
  - **Network**: This section mainly deals with DHCP and Static IP settings, RTP port settings, device deployment, etc.
  - **Intercom**: This section covers intercom settings, call features, etc.
  - **Surveillance**: This section covers motion detection, RTSP, MJPEG, ONVIF, live stream, etc.
  - **Access Control**: This section covers access control method setup, input, and relay control.
  - **Directory**: This section involves user and contact management.
  - **Device**: This section includes light, LCD, audio, lift control, and Wiegand settings.
  - **Setting**: This section includes time, language, action settings, schedule for access control, screen display, and HTTP API.
  - **System**: This section covers device upgrade and maintenance.
- **Engineer Management**: This section provides quick access to upgrading, maintaining, and debugging the device.

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## Introduction to Quick Start Module

The Quick Start module allows you to configure the device’s core features on a single interface, instead of switching between different interfaces.

You can redirect to the feature detail interface by clicking **Details** in the upper-right corner.

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- **Network**: Display the location information of the device.
  - **Device Location**: Enter the device’s location to distinguish it from others. By default, it is [*the device name_the last 4 characters of its MAC address*] in the [Self-organizing Network Solution](https://knowledge.akuvox.com/docs/self-organizing-network-solution-for-community-projects-1).
  - **Server Mode**: It is automatically set up according to the actual device connection with a specific server in the network, such as SDMC, Cloud, or None.
- **Auto-Discovery Contact List**: Display the contacts, such as indoor monitors, in the [Self-organizing Network Solution](https://knowledge.akuvox.com/docs/self-organizing-network-solution-for-community-projects-1).
  - **Show LCD Auto-Discovery Contact List**: Set whether to display these contacts on the device screen.
- [**Directory**](https://knowledge.akuvox.com/docs/phone-book-configuration-4#contact-list-display): Set the contact display mode.
  - **All Contacts**: Display all the contacts.
  - **Groups Only**: Display contact groups. Press the desired group on the device screen to make a group call.
  - **Groups On Entry Page And Their Contacts On Subpage**: Display contacts by groups. Press the group, and users can see the contacts in it.
- [**Open Relay Via HTTP**](https://knowledge.akuvox.com/docs/door-unlock-configuration-11#unlock-by-http-command):
  - **Username**: Set a username for authentication in HTTP command URLs.
  - **Password**: Set a password for authentication in HTTP command URLs.