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RE: [ECS] Redac and phone interface c Michael David Mon, 22 Jun 1998 21:39:08 -0400

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Hi Daniel!

On your phone-c record question:
You should be able to go to the items page, pick up the phone, which, of
course is plugged into the "phone" side of your Zoom Comstar modem, then hit
<F7>.  You should then see the "Hit any key to begin recording."  After you
hit any key, you should hear the beep in your ear and you should be
recording.  Right?

On your Redac question:
I have a few questions.  When you set your Redac to "disconnected", does
your passes per second pick back up, or remain really slow?  Do you have to
completely delete the item for your passes per second to pick up?

I am surprised that ECS is missing phone rings, no matter how slow it is
running.  Before I switched to ECSW, I was running ECST, and at one point I
was down to five passes per second.  Even at that, ECST had no problem
seeing the phone rings and answering the phone.

Currently running under ECSW, I get 12 passes per second, but I run ten
different interfaces through serial ports, three of which are Redacs. And,
My .CFG file is rather large: ~22,000 lines.

Having said all that, I am running phone answering on a second computer
using ECST which is controlled from ECSW.  This is only because I liked the
Bigmouth better than the Zoom for phone answering.  All I have had time to
implement is the basics necessary for ECSW to tell ECST when it's time to
answer the phone, and for ECST to report back the call status after the call
is ended.

When I am done playing with this Touchscreen stuff, I have plans to
implement local and remote phone sessions via ECST, with the macro values
fed back to ECSW.   It should be fairly easy to do, if I can find the time.
:)


Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com

-----Original Message-----
From:	Daniel A. Dubay [mailto:ddubay@umich.edu]
Sent:	Monday, June 22, 1998 5:54 PM
To:	ecs-list
Subject:	[ECS] Redac and phone interface c

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).
--
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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