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Re: [ECS] Urgent help needed Mark Gilmore Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:40:10 -0500

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A.J.,
Are you implying that the cell-phone notification
is somehow causing the problem ?
Does all work fine if you disable this ?

I'm very confused about what is failing:
	The recording of messages ?
	The remote session ?
	The cell notification ?

And as always, is there an error message ?

Are we talking about ONE or multiple problems ?

Is this the same "time-limit reached/no-message" problem that
you have been burdened with for many months now ?
If so (and you have tried diff modems), I STRONGLY suspect
a tentative hardware or OS failure. If it was ECS-related,
I must assume that some one would have reported a similar
problem.

But if you can determine a procedure which will re-create a
problem, I can help diagnose it (regardless of what HW/SW
is at fault). Without this, I'm probably helpless.
-- 
Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://omnipotencesoftware.com
423-745-0026
Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST


"A.J. Griglak" wrote:
> 
> I can't go on like this....  The modem / voicemail is just not working out.
> I've tried four different modems (including the recommended Zoom Comstar),
> switching com ports, playing with all the settings in PHNCO.SET...  I keep
> getting the same problems.
> 
> I went away for ten days, hoping to be able to check my messages by calling
> into ECS and doing a remote phone session.  Three times the modem somehow
> got hung up and the computer needed to be manually restarted.  Kinda tough
> to do from across the country.  So, I bugged my neighbor to go into my house
> and reset the computer.
> 
> Today, I was away all day, and didn't get any phone messages forwarded to
> me.  I come home to find six calls were taken, but "time limit reached" and
> no message was recorded.  Extremely frustrating to have call people and tell
> them that my machine didn't take their message again.  My customers are
> starting to get very upset over this.
> 
> What I would like is if there is anyone out there that sucessfully uses ECS
> to record incoming voicemail messages and then notify by cell when a new
> message is left, to email me directly with your hardware setup, and maybe I
> can find out what is wrong with my setup.
> 
> Alternatively, would it be possible to have a second modem in the machine,
> use a seperate voicemail program to record the phone messages, and still
> have ECS notify me?
> 
> I really love the remote phone capability which is why I've been trying to
> get this all to work for so long....
> 
> -=A.J.

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