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Redac and phone interface c Daniel A. Dubay Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:53:55 -0400 (EDT)

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Am I doing something wrong when I try to record a phone-message-c?  Do I
pick up the phone and then set the item to record?  (Yes the phone is
plugged into the modem.)

I also wondered what my options are regarding my redac.  It slows my
system down so much that the phone answering does not work (cannot detect
rings)
 1)Mark, can you give me/us more control over polling?  I don't think I
need to poll this device mare than 2-3x/sec.  Or could ecs continue
running while buffering results as they come back from the redac?
 2)Are you recommending that I get rid of my redac?  Do you recommend the
Home Vision or are alpha boards a good choice?
 3)I have been considering dedicating another computer to phone control
probably using phone interface a so I can maintain local phone sessions.
Is somebody else doing this?  I think I would have the two systems
communicate by serial port.  The only major drawback I can see would be
remote phone sessions.  Does anyone have any opinion or advice?

Thanks     Dan Dubay


Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:11:34 -0700
From: Mark Gilmore <markgilmore@cococo.net>
To: Dan Dubay <ddubay@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Phone Interface and Redac
 
Dan, there are no bugs that I am aware of related to phn-ifc-c,
but I forwarded your questions to ecs-list (yes, ALWAYS send
questions to ecs-list).
Also, always state which pgm you are using (ECS, ECST, or ECSW).
 
The REDAC is a polled device, so what you are seeing is what
would be expected (ECS is constantly reading its status).
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_gilmore_2




Hello Mark,
 
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you.  Do you prefer I send these
questions to you or the list?
 
I have installed the Phone-Interface-C and I do not receive any errors
(ecsw).  I have a couple of problems/comments:  I can record a
phone-recording-c using a microphone and record/aux, but when I use the
record command I just get noise.  Am I supposed to pick up the phone
handset
to make these recordings?  Do I need to do something else?  I am currently
using a Rockwell modem.  FYI, the previous Zoom 56k modem I was using was
a
voice modem but did not have microphone nor speaker jacks.  Are these
really
necessary?  You might want to mention it in your manual.
 
I think I have noticed a problem with the redac 16 programming both ecsw
and
ecst: (redac 16=plc-interface-2c):
 
                        Passes/sec      Passes/sec
Computer                with redac      without redac           program
 
Pentium 200                  12              210                  ecst
 
pentium 200                  12              210                  ecsw
 
P II 233 MMX                 20              300+                 ecsw
 
Even if there are no items defined for the redac the results are the same.
This might not be a problem but my phone rings item doesn't work with the
redac on line as well as other items responding poorly.  Is ecs waiting
for
the redac each event pass before resuming processing?  Could this be
changed
or improved?
 
Thanks!     Dan Dubay

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