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RE: [ECS] 4.1 upload Mark Sekelsky Sat, 29 May 1999 18:24:50 -0500

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Bill,

My guess is that you will need to use the new "Busy/VC" (or whatever the
syntax is).  It would seem like "Working" goes through it's "wait phase" but
that ECS resets the T/F statement right after it begins playing the message.
Since I don't toggle the speakers I don't ever notice that my sate gets
changed before a message is finished playing.  Alternatively, if there were
a Play/new/W that would work, but I don't think that exists.

Mark S

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Walters [mailto:wtwalters@home.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 3:28 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: [ECS] 4.1 upload


Mark Sekelsky,

Here's my phone "playback" event:

|Event:	Playback Messages               Called ?:No
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|	If         ACE-Speak New Msgs  Is Now     True
|	Then       Intercom            Set        High
|	Then       Working             Set        Speak/W
|	Then       Speak-Messages      Set        Play/New
|	Then       Intercom            Set        Low
|	Then       Count_Total phn msg Set        0
|	Then       ACE-Speak New Msgs  Set        False
|	Then       Event-Exit          Set        True

Here's the event I used to play messages by setting a true/false switch
with ACE invert operator.  What I get is the intercom activates, I hear
the message "Working", then the intercom shuts off.  I never hear any
phone messages.

Bill Walters



Mark Sekelsky wrote:
>
> 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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