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Re: [ECS] 4.1.006 BETA UPLOAD freemanb.us.ibm.com Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:47:57 -0500

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Mark:

While I agree Phone-Interface-D appears to be a fairly comprehensive solution,
its price at $ 229 for two lines is prohibitively expensive to collect caller ID
information only.  I have a slot available and would much rather spend $ 15 on
another (old) Zoom 14.4V modem.  Have you looked at the difficulty of enabling
two Phone-Interface-C items?

Regards,

Bill Freeman
freemanb@us.ibm.com


Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net> on 08/19/99 03:54:15 PM

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Bill, you need Phone-Interface-D to do this.

freemanb@us.ibm.com wrote:
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> A month or two ago there was a request for a change to allow more then one
> instance of PHONE-INTERFACE-C to provide an ability to receive caller ID's on
> multiple lines.   (The physical implementation would require a modem/COM port
> for each monitored line.)   I don't recall seeing a response to that request.
> Is this capability included in the 4.1.006 beta?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Bill Freeman
> freemanb@us.ibm.com
>
> Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net> on 08/19/99 12:58:05 PM
>
> Please respond to ecs-list@netbloc.com
>
> To:   "ecs-list@netbloc.com" <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> cc:
> Subject:  [ECS] 4.1.006 BETA UPLOAD
>
> I have uploaded a new copy of http://www.usit.com/omnip/ecsb.zip.
> NOTE that #74 has eliminated the old SLEEP method (you should
> find that CPU usage has been drastically reduced).
>
>      4.1.006 (08/19/99)
>
>     71)   The TX15 and TX15-B X-10 thermostats are now directly supported
>      via new Types HVAC-INTERFACE-C and HVAC-INTERFACE-D.
>
> *   72)   The numeric PHONE-INTERFACE-D States have been replaced by names
>      (the "PHONE-INTERFACE-DX" custom Type is no longer required).
>
>     73)   Per #38 above, a problem has been corrected which prevented the
>      CID info from being written to LMCID.TXT when PHONE-INTERFACE-D
>      was used.
>
>     74)   So as to free-up the CPU for other programs, ECS now "sleeps"
>      when no activity is pending and it has not fallen behind by
>      more than 1 second. A timer is used to assure that Events
>      are executed at least 4 times/second.
> --
> Mark Gilmore
> Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
> http://www.usit.com/omnip
> omnip@usit.net
> 423-745-0026

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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip
omnip@usit.net
423-745-0026

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