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Re: RE: [ECS] New upgrade experiences Scott Danks Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:49:29 -0500

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 Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:49:29 -0500
I would be happy to post the database to the email list, but it is 144k.  Do you think
that would jam up some of the people who are on slow dialup lines? 

Let me know what you think. (Anyone)
-Scott.


>>> Don Stephens <don@ndic.com> 09/11 11:37 AM >>>
Scott:

I hope you will post this here. If not could you let me in?

Thanks:
Don
donstephens@101freeway.com 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Danks" <sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us>
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2000 4:22 pm
Subject: Re: RE: [ECS] New upgrade experiences

> I can attach the home.mdb.  I did some work on the events this 
> weekend, and got the system to open the "|" delimited file and 
> parse it.  I had to make changes to the phone event. It now changes 
> the number of rings to answer on, depending on the entry in the 
> database.  And I have it changing the wav file to play for that 
> caller.  My family complained about having the system play a 
> ringing wav file over the load speakers, because it still rings one 
> more time after the phone is answered.  I may have to make other 
> changes to get this to work.  I was planning on turning off all the 
> phone ringers in the house and use the "Caller rings through" 
> setting to play the ringing wav file or not. I am still working on 
> it.  I also had to change a couple of variable types in the 
> database.  Let me get the newest one from home tonight. . . . 
> 
> >>> "Joseph & Jessica Colson III" <JColson@CajunNet.com> 09/09 7:03 
> AM >>>
> I'm also interested in knowing more on the database and how
> it all works.  Any chance of getting a copy of your cfg file?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe Colson
> 
> PS Thanks to everyone who responded to my on the ocelot question,
> Looks like that next on my wish list!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Danks [mailto:sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us] 
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:52 AM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
> Subject: Re: [ECS] New upgrade experiences
> 
> 
> Well I spent 6 hours last night upgrading to 4.4.006 from 4.4.004.  
> I found
> that if I wait too long I REALLY have a lot of updating to do.  
> Anyway I
> have a few questions (mostly to spawn discussion)  But, I have 
> questions,you have answers. . . .
> 
> I found that if I have a mistake and duplicate a group it seems to 
> "IGNORE"the second one.  Does this happen with items and events 
> too?  I am trying to
> find a way to keep from having to update the .cfg files each time I 
> want to
> use Mark's new whizbang code.  Usually I just keep the ecs.cfg and 
> dump the
> example.cfg, but there are some really good enhancements in this one.
> 
> I fought the type: download-status for several hours last night 
> trying to
> figure out why it would not find that type and this morning it 
> dawned on me
> that it was probably a "Custom Item type".  I guess the installer 
> does not
> write over the itpcst.def file?  I installed over the old program 
> to retain
> all my wav files etc.
> 
> Now for the update I am going to do this weekend.  I made an Access 
> Databasecalled "Home.mdb" and when run, it opens to a form that 
> asks for several
> bits of info about a caller.  Like callerid number, and name and 
> wav file
> name to play and if they can call afterhours etc.  I will share it 
> if you
> all are interested.  Then when you exit the file, it writes all the 
> info to
> "t.csv" (telephone.csv)  The file has info like
> "2|1002|Jan|Adams|918|1234567|4|0|0|1|1|adams.wav".  I will write a 
> routinethis weekend to parse through this file and look for the 
> callerid number.
> Then use the data to set the rings count, answer count, and what 
> file to
> play when this caller calls (adams.wav)"  This way, I can have 
> hundreds of
> people in my database, and it's easy for my wife to enter the caller
> information on the ACCESS97 form and then the next time this person 
> callsthe system will handle it correctly.  I had to use a macro and 
> events that
> trigger the macro when the database is closed, to write the data to 
> the "|"
> delimited fields.  I just hope the computer is fast enough to run 
> throughtthe database and find the match in between phone rings.    
> Would anyone be
> interested in this?  When I get it working I would be willing to 
> share the
> code.  The numbers above represent, Record 2, id number 1002, 
> firstname,lastname, area code, phone number, ring to answer on, 
> email the recording,
> ring phones at all, call afterhours, send text page after caller 
> leavesmessage, name of wav file to play to caller.   comments?
> 
> I'm also thinking of using an mp3 format to record a lot of things 
> like a
> greeting to be played at my front door when someone rings the 
> doorbell.Didnt someone use winamp?  I wa trying to figure out how 
> to use command line
> switches to play the files, but I cant find any command line switches.
> Didnt AJ use something like this? my memory clouds the older I get. 
> (37).
> planning a great weekend....
> Scott Danks
> 
> 

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