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| Subject: From: Date: | Re: [ECS] Telephone Question J Gary Mull Wed, 08 Sep 1999 01:00:42 -0400 |
Mark -
Mark I do not following your instructions in your note to '..."Get manual"
by setting it to CALL yourself. Then worry about getting the Events to work. '
The only thing that ECS does when I press 5 is to say, "your call is being
transferred" then phone box5 begins recording instead of dialing the dial
string. The event is simply if phone-rings is now 2 then Answer set
answer. I know of no manual way to have a phone box answer unless you call
and then press 5.
In the DOS version this was my dial string:
FWW0WWW404-871-7804A10
When one pressed 5 during the announcement message after ECS answered the
call ECS would then place the call on hold, get a new dial tone on my
answer transfer option, dial my pager and then transfer the call. ECS was
several seconds slow in releasing the call, but it worked and transferred
the caller to my pager and then ECS hung-up. ECS is extension 11 on my
Panasonic PBX.
This is a phone-box and not a phone-call, The dial string is not being
executed in the phone-box. Since I am new to the ATDT type string possibly
I need to add some different commands ????
In the ecs.log the following line appears:
09/08 12:45 AM:Modem ERROR responding to "ATDT,,!,,,4048717804,, !" (Item
"Phone-Answer")
I tried my item with both of the following dial strings
ATDT,,!,,,4048717804,, !
ATDT,,!,,,4048717804,, A!
ATDT,,!,,,4048717804,, X!
ATDT,,!,,,4048717804,, X
each time ecs begin to record a message
Gary
At 06:16 PM 08/24/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Gary,
>I have a strong feeling that your Events are triggering
>a RECORD, instead of setting this Item to CALL. I tried
>this command, and it seemed to work fine. "Get manual"
>by setting it to CALL yourself. Then worry about getting
>the Events to work.
>
>J Gary Mull wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>> >--
>> >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
>> >
>> jgary@atl.mindspring.com Gary at Home
>> jgmull@us.ibm.com Gary at Work
>
>--
>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
>http://www.usit.com/omnip
>423-745-0026
>
jgary@atl.mindspring.com Gary at Home
jgmull@us.ibm.com Gary at Work