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RE: [ECS] Phone-interface-c Michael David Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:24:21 -0400

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Hi Dan!

Each computer has it's own unique .cfg file.  In addition, to make things
more understandable, I use custom item types.  Rather than setting a byte to
be sent out to ECST when I want it to answer the phone, I set the custom
item type to "Record Generic Message."  Of course, the end result is the
same; it's still just a byte passed to ECST.

I haven't gotten to the local and remote sessions yet, but it should be as
simple as passing the macro value from ECST to ECS.

BTW, my approach has been to keep the ECST side of the phone answering
equation very simple; most of the logic is still back at the ECS end.  Thus,
ECST simply does what it's told to do, and informs ECS what is has done.

For local and remote sessions, I envision that ECST will do nothing more
than tell ECS when a local or remote session has begun, pass the macro
value, and await further instruction.  ECS will also send back the text that
ECST needs to speak.  Essentially, In this particular application as a
second machine, ECST will stay pretty dumb.

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From:	Dan Carrington [mailto:dc_grafx@microworks.net]
Sent:	Sunday, October 11, 1998 3:09 PM
To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
Subject:	Re: [ECS] Phone-interface-c

Yes, please tell us.  I am interested in this type of system also and
very interested in how you implimented the remote or local phone
sessions with two different systems and I would assume two completely
different ecs.cfg's, yes?  Did you have to create state holders for
everything within the dos machine to be able to see and control the
windows machine?  Do you have to swap states between machines for the
dos machine to allow remote sessions to read and control everything?

Dan Carrington



William Biggs wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> The voice modem seems to be the Achilles heel of ECSW.  I will probably
> adopt a system like yours with 2 machines.
>
> Can you tell us again how you are linking ECSD and ECSW ?
>
> Thanks,
> Reddy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael David <michaeld@michaeldavid.com>
> To: ECS List <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
> Date: Saturday, October 10, 1998 2:04 PM
> Subject: RE: [ECS] Phone-interface-c
>
> >Hi Carl!
> >
> >I using the good 'ole reliable Bigmouth, installed in a second computer,
> >running ECST.
> >
> >Even though it's eight years old, it still makes better recordings than
the
> >Zoom.
> >
> >Cheers!
> >
> >Michael David
> >michael@michaeldavid.com
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Carl Keyes [mailto:carlkeyes@hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Saturday, October 10, 1998 1:11 PM
> >To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org; michaeld@michaeldavid.com
> >Subject: RE: [ECS] Phone-interface-c
> >
> >Hi Michael,
> >
> >Just curious. Which modem are you using?
> >
> >Carl
> >
> >>Hi Mark S!
> >>
> >>When I was using the 2800 I experienced all of those problems.  In
> >addition,
> >>I found the TTS->Phone-C conversion distorted and unusable (this is a
> >>limitation of the Rockwell compression algorithms).  My biggest
> >complaint,
> >>even when ECS didn't hang up during the recording, was that the
> >recorded
> >>level was so low that we could barely hear it.
> >>
> >>I do want to point out that I don't think the issues with phone-ifc-c
> >are no
> >>fault of Mark's.  IMO, voice modems just suck.  :)
> >>
> >>
> >>Cheers!
> >>
> >>Michael David
> >>michael@michaeldavid.com
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Mark Sekelsky [mailto:Mark@sekelsky.com]
> >>Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 8:39 PM
> >>To: ECS List
> >>Subject: [ECS] Phone-interface-c
> >>
> >>
> >>I am using a Zoom ComStar 2800 SVD 33.6 with ECS (the recommended
> >>Windows/ECS internal modem) and am having numerous issues with this
> >modem.
> >>I want to verify that I am the only one with these issues and/or find
> >out if
> >>anybody has a trouble free modem.  Issues:
> >>During the "goodbye" at the end of a message being recorded ECS will
> >>occasionally lockup.  This is a relatively new issue.
> >>Occasionally somebody will be leaving a message and ECS will hang-up
> >during
> >>the message (and the are speaking loudly).
> >>Back when issue number 1 did not exist I found that after running for
> >about
> >>5 days the modem would stop sending sound to the external speaker.  A
> >reset
> >>using F5 would fix this.
> >>Anybody else have any of these issues?
> >>
> >>Mark S
> >>
> >
> >
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