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RE: [ECS] 4.1 upload Mark Sekelsky Thu, 27 May 1999 17:45:07 -0500

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Bill,

I don't use intercoms or switched speakers, I just have a speaker at every
house level that is always "on."  The way I do my messages is by setting the
state of an appliance type item to "on" (since I started using ACE I could
really change these to True/False items).  It looks like this:

|	IF    		Phone: Play All     Is Now     On
|	Then       	Play messages       Set        Play->VC
|	Then       	Phone: Play All     Set        Off

"Play messages" is my speak-messages item.  Whether you do it with an
appliance type item or a T/F item you could use the state of that to set
your switch.

Mark S

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Walters [mailto:wtwalters@home.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 5:20 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: [ECS] 4.1 upload


Mark (Sekelsky);

Hi!  Just started working with ECS 4.1 last night late; Mark G. did
conversion for me on .CFG file, found I needed to go back on all .TXT
files that are spoken and change "Speak" to "Speak/W" but other than
that, just about 100%!

I've a question for you on "Speak-Messages"....  Do you use an intercom
or any other switched device for speaking your phone messages?

I "thought" I could add in a new event to take care of my intercom
switching (Intercom is a PD-40 digital output with "High" = "turn the
intercom on" & "low" = "turn the intercom off"):

Event:Intercom Control        Called?:No

If        Speak-Messages      Is Not Now        Idle
Then      Intercom            Set               High

Else If   Speak-Messages      Is Now            Idle
Then      Intercom            Set               Low

Thought this would "do it" but alas; examining "Speak-Messages", the
state doesn't seem to change from "idle".

Wonder how you're handling it?

Bill Walters

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