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Re: [ECS] Recording new Outgoing phone message Bill Walters Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:33:27 -0500

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Mark,

I'm home from my trip; please e-mail ecs.zip as per below:

Bill

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

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