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Dialtone Detection
Jerry Swords
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:44:40 -0500

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:44:40 -0500

Has anyone been able to get ECS to ignore dialtone detection when placing a numeric
pager call?  I asked this question about a year ago, and the only solution offered was
to use the "Call/Wait" option for dialing out.  Unfortunately, ECS promptly returns
the message "No dialtone-abort", immediately after setting the Phone-Call item to the
"Call" or "Call/Wait" state.  My voice mail service uses a "stutter" dialtone to indicate
messages waiting for the first 4-5 seconds after picking up the phone, and returns to
a normal dialtone after that.  I would like ECS to either skip dialtone detection, or
wait 5+ seconds before attempting to dial (or attempting to detect a dialtone) after
picking up the line.  I have tested my Phone-Call item's functioning by manually picking
up the phone, waiting until the normal dialtone is heard, and then setting the item
to "Call", and everything works great after that.

I am using the Zoom Comstar 56k modem as Phone-Interface-C.  I did de-select the "Detect
dialtone" option under the properties for this modem, but that had no effect on ECS'
handling of dialtone detection.

I would appreciate any suggestions for working around this problem.

Thanks,
Jerry

Has anyone been able to get ECS to ignore dialtone detection when placing a numeric pager call? I asked this question about a year ago, and the only solution offered was to use the "Call/Wait" option for dialing out. Unfortunately, ECS promptly returns the message "No dialtone-abort", immediately after setting the Phone-Call item to the "Call" or "Call/Wait" state. My voice mail service uses a "stutter" dialtone to indicate messages waiting for the first 4-5 seconds after picking up the phone, and returns to a normal dialtone after that. I would like ECS to either skip dialtone detection, or wait 5+ seconds before attempting to dial (or attempting to detect a dialtone) after picking up the line. I have tested my Phone-Call item's functioning by manually picking up the phone, waiting until the normal dialtone is heard, and then setting the item to "Call", and everything works great after that.

I am using the Zoom Comstar 56k modem as Phone-Interface-C. I did de-select the "Detect dialtone" option under the properties for this modem, but that had no effect on ECS' handling of dialtone detection.

I would appreciate any suggestions for working around this problem.

Thanks,

Jerry