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Re: [ECS] Remote Phone Sessions Carl Keyes Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:07:28 PDT

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>Reply-To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:11:20 -0500
>From: Bill Walters <bwalters@fastlane.net>
>To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
>Subject: Re: [ECS] Remote Phone Sessions
>
>Well, the most obvious to me is being able to do just about anything I 
can code in
>ECS with any phone in the house or by a phone call when I'm away.  I 
have entirely
>separate events (yes, with many duplicates but there's a reason...) for 
remote
>phone sessions and local phone sessions.  For example, when I call into 
the house
>from my mobile, I receive voice prompts confirming each command and I 
even created
>a "help" file which will play if requested (by pressing H#).  No voice
>confirmations are made in Local Phone Sessions, since someone is likely 
standing
>there waiting for whatever to be accomplished and can visually see that 
it was
>indeed done.   I use my phone sessions for things such as:
>
>    Retrieve All messages
>    Retrieve New messages
>    Make new outgoing message
>    Page-on-Call ON/OFF
>    Log all Incoming & Outgoing calls w/date,number,time & duration of 
call
>        (outgoing call logging available only with BIGMOUTH or PBX)
>    Phone RING ON/OFF (yet to be implemented)
>    Theater Mode ON/OFF (not in remote session)
>    Entertain Mode ON/OFF (not in remote session)
>    Wakeup/Goodnight (not in remote session)
>    HVAC Control (upstairs/Den/Master; yet to be implemented)
>
>    ....etc., etc., etc.

>
>Not too sure if all that helped but thought I'd chime in there with my 
2-cents
>worth.
>
>Bill Walters

Bill,

I agree. There is a real world need for a lot of us for
local phone control.

Thanks,

Carl K


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