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Re: [ECS] ECS + PBX Daniel Dubay Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:51:48 -0400

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Reddy,  Thanks for all the info.  I was planning on getting the analog system
(61611 or something like that).  Do you recommend the new digital system?  The
features sound great.

Dan Dubay

Reddy Biggs wrote:

> 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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