What it does

The Security Orb watches the area around it. When someone who isn’t welcome shows up, the Orb can warn them and then send them away — by teleporting them home, ejecting them from your parcel, or banning them. People you trust (an “Access list”) are never touched, and you and your helpers get a pop‑up so you can decide what to do. You can also be notified by instant message or email whenever someone enters.

Everything is controlled by touching the Orb and picking from a menu. There is nothing to assemble and no scripting required.

Setting it up

The Orb is a ready‑to‑use object. Just place it and switch it on.

1. Rez the Orb where you want it to sit. It must be on land you own or rent.
2. Touch the Orb — the configuration menu opens (only admins can open it).
3. Open Access List → Add and add the people who are allowed (you, friends, partners).
4. Press Start and choose a mode (Normal for full protection). For safety the Orb starts stopped, so nothing happens until you start it.

Quick start

1. Touch the Orb → Access List → Add and add yourself, friends, partners — anyone allowed to stay.
2. Range defaults to the full 96 m — you only need to lower it for a small plot. For bigger areas use Full Parcel (drones).
3. Press Start → Normal. Done — the area is protected, and you’ll briefly see a scan bubble showing the covered radius.

The status display

The Orb floats a small line of text above itself so you can see its state at a glance:

When drones are deployed, range shows full parcel instead of a metre value.

You can turn this text off under More… → Visual → Text OFF.

Using the menu

Touch the Orb to open the menu. The main buttons:

Protection modes

You choose the mode when you press Start.

Warnings & removal

In Normal mode you can give people a grace period before they’re removed (Eject Mode → Warn Time: 0, 15, 30 or 45 seconds; the default is 45).

• The visitor gets a pop‑up warning they must click away, with a countdown.
• You and your admins get a pop‑up to choose: Kick & Ban, Kick only, Access 4h (let them stay 4 hours) or Access perm (add them permanently).
• If nobody reacts in time, the visitor is removed automatically.

Eject Mode — how someone is removed

Banned avatars are removed automatically the moment the Orb next sees them (within a few seconds), so there is no need for a manual “eject now”.

Letting people in / out

Access List — trusted people who are never removed. Use Add to pick someone nearby, Remove to take them off, List to see who’s on it. You can also add or remove people by name in chat, even when they’re offline (see chat commands).

Ban List — people who are always blocked.

Temp Time — when you grant a temporary pass, this sets how long it lasts (15 min up to 24 h).

Admins & Advanced

The land owner is always the Chief‑Admin with full control — and stays Chief even after the Orb is deeded to a group. You can add Sub‑Admins (helpers).

Want your sub‑admins to have everything too? Open More… → Perms and press Activate Advanced (the button then shows Deactivate Advanced). This unlocks all functions — drones, email, rename, IM alerts, and the advanced chat commands — for your sub‑admins. Only the Chief can change this setting.

Group mode

Set the Orb to a group, then choose under Group Mode:

Automatic protections

Under Auto‑Ban you can automatically remove avatars who:

• wear too many scripts (great for keeping a laggy club or shop smooth);
• have an account younger than a chosen number of days;
• have an account older than a chosen number of days.

Set any value to 0 to switch that check off.

Rental link (CasperLet)

The Orb can follow a CasperLet rental meter so renters are handled automatically – no extra script goes into the meter, and nothing clutters anyone’s inventory.

Linking (Chief only)

1. Open More… > Rental > Link.
2. Touch / open your CasperLet meter on this parcel so it sends an update.
3. The Orb detects the meter on your parcel and asks you to confirm – press Link. From then on it follows only that one meter. Unlink clears it.

While linked:

• A new renter is automatically added as a sub-admin.
• When the rental ends (eviction or expiry), that renter’s admin/access is removed and the visitor log, ban list and access list are reset.

Works for any owner, and also when the Orb is deeded to a group (the Chief stays the same). CasperLet only for now (Hippo uses a different system). Assumes one meter per parcel.

Coverage & the range scan

The Orb itself watches up to 96 m, which is also the default — lower the Range only if you want a smaller bubble. For anything larger than 96 m, use the Full Parcel button (in the Range menu) to deploy drones. Drones are recommended from about 16368 sqm or a full parcel/region, and are always required to also cover extra altitudes.

See your coverage: under More… → Visual, press Show Scan Now to light up a bubble of the covered radius for a few seconds. By default the Orb also shows this scan automatically each time you press Start (Auto‑Scan, which you can switch off).

Covering a large area (drones)

For a parcel bigger than the Orb’s 96 m reach, it can deploy four invisible drones that spread across your parcel and watch together.

1. Open More… → Drones.
2. Press Deploy. The Orb detects your parcel’s boundaries automatically — the drones never leave your land, even on a full region. Press Recall to bring them back.

Different heights: the drones cover the height the Orb sits at. To also protect a skybox, add extra heights under Drones → Altitudes (e.g. 1000, 2000), then Deploy. Up to 8 height layers.

Alerts: IM & email

The Orb can tell you when someone enters your parcel — even while you’re away.

Instant message — turn it on under Visitors → IM ON, or in chat with /5 imon (/5 imoff to stop). You’ll get an IM such as [09:34 SLT] [My Orb @ Region] Name Resident | entered. IM alerts go to the Chief.

Email — under More… → Email, set your address and switch Notify on. Same alerts, by email — handy when you’re offline.

Both are off by default. In Silent mode these private alerts are the perfect quiet way to keep an eye on who comes and goes.

Visitor log

Visitors → Show Log lists recent arrivals and departures — each line shows the time, the name and what happened (entered, left, INTRUDER warned, banned, and so on). Clear Log empties it. The log is also a great record of who visited while you were away.

Naming your Orb

Give the Orb your own name with /5 rename My Estate Guardian. The new name then appears in chat and in your IM/email alerts (e.g. My Estate Guardian: …). The name is remembered.

Chat commands

Type these in normal chat on channel 5 (e.g. /5 deploy). Some are open to all admins; others are Chief‑only (or any sub‑admin once you’ve activated Advanced).

Names are matched grid‑wide, so /5 add works even when the person isn’t in the region. Use the legacy name (“First Last”; a missing last name is treated as “Resident”).

Backup & restore

Under More… → Backup, choose Export (IM) or Export (Email). The Orb gives you ready‑to‑use restore lines, for example:

To restore — into the same Orb or a new one — just copy each line and say it in chat. This works even on a no‑modify Orb because it’s all done through chat. Keep an export somewhere safe if you ever want to move your lists to an upgraded Orb.

Estate managers & Linden staff

Once, then left alone. If the Orb removes an estate manager or the region owner and it has no effect (they are immune), it acts once and then leaves them alone until the Orb is next started or reset — so you are never spammed, even if they walk right back in. Add them to your Access list to have them ignored for good.

Linden Lab staff are recognised automatically and are never warned, banned or ejected.

Estate managers and the region owner can’t be detected automatically — Second Life provides no way for any parcel device to know who they are (this is a platform limitation, not specific to this Orb). In practice the system also prevents parcel tools from banning them. If you want a specific manager to be completely ignored, simply add them to your Access list.

Troubleshooting

The Orb says it “cannot operate here”

The land isn’t owned by / deeded to the Orb’s owner. If the land is group‑owned, deed the Orb to that group (see the setup box). Otherwise, move the Orb onto your own parcel.

It removed someone it shouldn’t have

Un-ban in one step: Ban List → Remove (or Access List → Add, or /5 add First Last) — that removes them from the ban list and lifts the Second Life parcel ban automatically, no need to touch About Land. The Orb also ships with gentle defaults (Eject Mode = TP-Home only, Warn Time = 45 s), so mistakes just send people home, with a warning first.

Nothing happens when someone enters

Check that the Orb is started, that the person isn’t on your Access List or in an allowed group, and that your Range covers the spot. Remember the Orb only acts on land its owner controls.

FAQ

Do visitors see anything?

Only an intruder being warned/removed gets a private pop‑up. Trusted people notice nothing.

Will it disturb my neighbours?

No. The Orb only acts on its owner’s own land, and the drones stay strictly inside your parcel.

Do my settings survive a reset or rez?

Yes — your lists and settings are stored in the Orb and survive resets and being taken back into inventory. For extra safety, keep a Backup export.

What’s the default admin?

When the Orb is first rezzed, Egon Takeda is added as a sub‑admin so support is possible. The owner can remove this at any time.

Support

If you have any problems using this product, please contact Egon Takeda directly in Second Life, or use our contact form. You can also post in the Egon’s Estate forum. For the latest documentation, visit egons.estate/gadgets/landorb.