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RE: [ECS] Phone-interface-c Judson Gary Mull Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:05:30 -0400

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Michael,

If you get ECS and bigmouth to transfer easily I want to know how.  Both
Quinton and I have not had very good luck.  I have it working where one can
select 5 and are transferred to my pager number, however, ECS/BigMouth one
does not release for several seconds and I had to change my message on the
Pager number to just a series of "Enter your number now."  I also set up so
I could call in with a special code from my cell phone and have ECS
transfer me to another line dialing my Mom.  She has always hung up except
for one time because ECS dials the number but does not release the call for
several seconds.  Thus she would think someone had just hung up when she
answered the phone.

       Gary


At 03:05 PM 10/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Reddy!
>
>I am doing it through the serial-byte item on both machines.  To date, I
>have only had time to implement the most basic of control of ECST from ECS
>to do nothing more than just answer the phone, log the call, and also for
>making appropriate security announcements on the exterior door phone speaker
>("Security is now armed", "Entry Detected", etc.)
>
>It'll be a few more months till things slow down at work so I can implement
>everything I have planned, such as: Local and Remote  phone sessions, call
>transferring, etc.
>
>If you would like to get a copy of what I have done, please let me know, and
>I'll email it to you.  I Just remember, it's still in the early stage of
>it's development, so you gotta' promise not to make fun of me!  :)
>
>Cheers!
>
>Michael David
>michael@michaeldavid.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	William Biggs [mailto:william@qualityhunt.com]
>Sent:	Saturday, October 10, 1998 6:06 PM
>To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org; michaeld@michaeldavid.com
>Subject:	Re: [ECS] Phone-interface-c
>
>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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