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| Subject: From: Date: | Re: [ECS] Can't create a new phone item in 4.4.014 Stuart Silverman 29 Dec 2000 09:41:13 -0800 |
Mark, lets see line 1808. Stuart On Fri, 29 December 2000, "Mark Sekelsky" wrote: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> > <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4207.2601" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> > <BODY> > <DIV>I have been trying to setup a new phone answer type item in ECS. I > have no trouble setting up the two items (phone recording item followed by a > phone answer item), however they do not work when I try and execute them via an > event, and I receive an error message upon restarting ECS that the item at line > 1808 is invalid.<BR><BR>My steps, and results, are as follows</DIV> > <OL> > <LI>Create a phone recording C. item. Let's give this the name like > "answer: K and D."</LI> > <LI>Next I create a phone answer item. I use my recently created phone > recording C. item with this phone answer item. I typically name this > something like "phone: answer K. D."</LI> > <LI>Modify my callerid.txt file with the phone number, state, and name for K. > and D..</LI> > <LI>Add the appropriate lines to my phone event so that when K. and D. calls > they receive the message I have recorded for them.</LI></OL> > <DIV>I have done this several times. Each time, upon restarting ECS when > ECS is parsing the ECS.cfg I get an error message about an invalid item at line > 1808. Line 1808 is where my new phone items begin.<BR><BR>Other > findings:</DIV> > <UL> > <LI>During one of the reboot's I not only removed the new phone items from my > configuration file, but I inserted a new text item in at line 1808. ECS > accepted this text item just fine, and I was also able to invoke this item > from within ECS (set it to "speak").</LI> > <LI>I edited my callerid.txt file so that when I would call from my cell phone > ECS would recognize that number and play the K & D message. When I call > the phone rings, ECS announces me as a caller, after the appropriate number of > rings ECS picks up the phone, after about one or two seconds ECS then hangs up > the phone. No message is ever played. From this point forward ECS > will no longer play <FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>any</STRONG></FONT> of my > phone recorded messages for <STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>any</FONT></STRONG> > callers.</LI></UL> > <DIV>I am using 4.4.014 (beta), Win 98, Zoom 14.4 modem.</DIV> > <DIV> </DIV> > <DIV>I have not done a lot more testing (same issue in last version of ECS, can > I create other items, etc.) as the wife and kids are not too happy with all > these restarts :)</DIV> > <DIV> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark S</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com