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Re: [ECS] Telephone Question J Gary Mull Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:06:36 -0400

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Hi Gang,  

Per my post yesterday I still have not yet figured out how I might transfer
a call.  It is often the little things that I find the most difficult to
see and do.

My Bell South phone has answer transfer.  You can Flash get a new dial
tone, dial a number hangup and the call is transferred to the number you
dialed.

I was doing this in ECS DOS with the BigMouth card using a Phone-Box Item.
If some one during the initial answer message pressed 5, ECS would then
initiate the dial-string in phone box5 and transfer the call to my pager,
another number would transfer the caller to my cell phone, etc....

My question is, does the current Phone-Box Item support this in the Windows
version.  The dial string is there but is anyone doing anything with a
phone-box item like me.  I have set up the dial-string the same as I had in
DOS, with the exception of a "," for "W" (wait) and "!" for "F" (flash).


Here is what I have setup that is not working for me.  

Item:			Phone Box5
Type:			Phone-Box
Initial State:  	(none)
Message Item:	
Box Number:		5
Dial-String		ATDT!,,,0,,,404-871-7804 X	

Instead of transferring the call, ECS begins to record. ??????

ECS is an extension on the PBX, so I have to flash, wait till I receive a
dial tone, then press zero to get to the party.

"!" is a FLASH COMMAND
"," is a 1 second wait


I have tried various other dial-stings but I have not landed on one that
works, any ideas 


At 06:51 AM 08/24/1999 -0700, you wrote:
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>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
>http://www.usit.com/omnip
>omnip@usit.net
>423-745-0026
>Gary,
>I think you can do this with the AT dial string:
>"!" causes a flash-hook and "," causes a delay
>of ?? seconds.
>
>J Gary Mull wrote:
>> 
>> I have a unique type of line, with Answer Transfer.  It is a little
>> different than three way calling in that it allows me to transfer a caller
>> to another outside line.
>> 
>> If you wish to transfer the caller, you simply press flash and dial the
>> number and hangup.
>> 
>> I am trying to duplicate what I was doing with the BigMouth Card with the
>> zoom modem and have not managed to duplicate what I was doing with
BigMouth.
>> 
>> For instance I had phone box 5 set to transfer the call to my pager with a
>> flash hook wait, dial 0, wait and then dial my pager number and hangup.
>> 
>> Can one first do a flash hook, then dial a number using the ATDT type
>> string?  I have tried various ways to do this, but did not succeed.  I can
>> do this manually with my PBX.  I answer the call, press flash hook, wait a
>> moment, dial 0 to receive a new dial tone on my main number, then dial the
>> new number and hang up.
>> 
>> I had other non published mail boxes setup to dial other numbers such as my
>> Mom Long Distance.  I got a better rate if I was on my cell phone, called
>> the house to a private mail box and then was transferred long distance to
>> my mom etc.
>> 
>>         Gary
>> jgary@atl.mindspring.com   Gary at Home
>> jgmull@us.ibm.com          Gary at Work
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jgary@atl.mindspring.com   Gary at Home 
jgmull@us.ibm.com          Gary at Work

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