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ECS + PBX Reddy Biggs Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:44:04 -0500

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As far as groups of phones, this is easy to do. You can assign each
extension to a group. You can page the whole system, or a subset of phones,
or an individual phone. To page all phones in my system dial 330. To call
group 1 dial 331, group 2  - 332 , etc.

ECS does this as easily as it can call an individual extension.

I do use it for ECS to announce the caller's name. The connect time is only
the time ECS spends sending touch tones. Of course the caller ID is sent
between ring 1 and ring 2. Thus I use the PBX to delay ringing the phones
until ring 2, and it gives everyone the impression that ECS announces the
name BEFORE the phone ring. Very cool..


The voice quality is excellent, certainly better than the Bigmouth card or
my Sound Blaster that generates the sound to begin with.

The advantage here is you can, of course, use the phones manually, outside
of ECS. My wife appreciates rounding up the kids by paging the whole house
this way.

There are different tones sent in different situations.

If you call an individual extension, and "Auto answer" is off, it merely
rings the phone with a distinctive 2 short ring pattern. If "Auto answer" is
on, it gives two beeps over the speaker, and you are connected.

I looked into disabling the beeps. This apparently is a security feature to
allow allow people near the phone to know it is active, and thus someone on
the other end could be listening. Thus it can't be disabled.  I can tell you
after 5 1/2 years it is not annoying to me or my family.  It can wake up a
baby, so when we used it as a baby monitor we called from the baby's room to
our room to avoid that problem. (They make terrific baby monitors, BTW. You
can mute out your end so the baby doesn't hear you, but you can hear baby. )

If you call as a group page, you get one slightly longer beep.

If you call from a doorphone, you get 3 beeps or rings.

I have noticed on the newer digital 7230 models they still beep, but at a
much lower volume. In fact, I can barely hear the beep on them sometimes.

Reddy



>The plot thickens.  Any thoughts Reddy?  Also can you page all phones at
once?
>I would use it for caller ID announce.  Is there much of a delay?  Yes a
loud
>tone would not be good.
>
>Thanks for the info.
>
>Dan Dubay
>
>don.sb.net@sb.net wrote:
>

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