Tell them it is required by fire code to be on a POTS line not a VoIP line.  While that isn't true everywhere, in many places it is (just like emergency elevator phones).

You may look into getting a resale account with the phone company for POTS lines so you can bundle that in.

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Adam Moffett wrote on 11/8/19 08:52:
I had one of those "my antique alarm system doesn't work on your ATA, and I know you said get a POTS line for the alarm but I ignored you" calls.

Was trying to troubleshoot that.  Nothing major.


On 11/7/2019 5:26 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
What are you trying to accomplish?  My Alarm panel has this built in if you wire the POTS line to it before anything else.


On 11/7/2019 4:25 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
From the verbal description I got, it sounds more like the "Priority line grabber" about 1/3 of the way down this page:

http://www.sandman.com/lineshar.html

I didn't realize how many varieties of such a thing there might be.....I guess I'll have to get eyes on it.


On 11/7/2019 5:18 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I thought maybe he was talking about a PLAR, but you're probably right.

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Line Exclusion device.  I found a few online.  I remember putting one on the hall phone at a school.  It was on one of the main lines of the school.  The kids could use the hall phone unless someone in the office was using that
line.  Saved them from buying another line.

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Oh, geeze.... I remember how they worked.... line isolator?

Exclusion something.  Privacy adapter.  Something like that.
Line excluder?  Exclusion device.  Automatic exclusion.
Seems like the word exclusion was in there.  Google it and you will probably
find one.

There are also line sharing devices that would block another line if a fax
was in use.

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What's the proper term for a device that will take over a phone line if the phone connected to it picks up? Like the device they use to put an elevator
emergency phone onto the fax line.



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