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Re: [ECS] Recording new Outgoing phone message Mark Gilmore Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:50:42 -0700

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Hi Bill,
I fixed the bug.
Let me know if I can email you ECS.EXE (zipped) for further testing.

NOTE: ECS normally does NOT abort recording on a DTMF,
as some people's voices (esp females) can "fake out"
the modem, Therefore, when you re-record your greeting
remotely, you can only abort it via a silence timeout.
Callers would then hear a few seconds of silence after
your spoken greeting. If this is more undesirable than
the chance of having messages occasionaly truncated,
then place this line in \AUTOEXEC.BAT and reboot:

	SET ECS_MSG_DTMF_ABO=1

This will cause ECS to abort recordings on DTMFs.

Bill Walters wrote:
> 
> Mark Gilmore,
> 
> Having some difficulty since converting to ECS 4.1 with an event I use
> to change my "outgoing" message remotely.
> 
> Here is the event (in the "remote-phone macro" event):
> 
> ;766 = RNM (record new message)
> Else if      Remote Phone Macro     Is     766
> Then         Msg_Make New Greeti    Set    Speak/W
> ; above line plays message "Record your new outgoing message
> Then         Msg_Phone greeting2    Set    Record/W
> ; above line sets the outgoing message to "record"
> Then         Remote Phone Macro     Set    0
> 
> This event worked flawlessly under ECS for DOS.  I have to confess I
> hadn't had occasion to use it until recently.  When I did, it seemed to
> work, but wouldn't ever release the phone line after recording the new
> "outgoing" message.  When I got home, I reset ECS and it released the
> phone line.  I tried it again (using second phone line here at home, and
> duplicated the failure of Phone-Interface-C to release the line after
> making the recording.
> 
> So, I added the next line of code:
> 
> Then     Phone-Interface-C    Set     Reset
> 
> and now, I can call in, enter "766", get the prompt "Record your new
> outgoing message", a tone (ok, ready to record now), then ECS hangs up
> on me.
> 
> In the "Messages" window of ECS, I have the following error:
> 
> ERROR:Modem ERROR responding to "AT#VTX" (Item "Remote Phone Sess.")
> ("Proce
> 
> and can't see the rest of the message, since it's cut off at the right
> hand edge of the ECS message window.
> 
> What files do you need to help me sort this out?
> 
> Bill

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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
omnip@usit.net
http://www.usit.com/omnip

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