Howdy, I have been lurking on here for several months, and finally get enough courage to answer a question. We built a new home and wanted to install a phone system. Mainly to handle the following things: 1. Door Bell Intercom 2. Page ALL and Page Extension functions instead of yelling at the top of your lungs "TIME FOR DINNER" 3. Voicemail We purchased a Pana KX-TA824 connectd with a TVS95 and have it set up and working. With one small annoyance I'll describe in a bit. The TVS95 is connected to the KX-TA824 via JACK 07 using APT Integration. I did the setup with my laptop connected to the TVS95 and it seemed to change the programing on the TA824 accordingly. I recorded the greetings on the TVS95 and it is set up real simple: "Hello you have reached xxxxxxx for Mark and Lane press 101 and for Kimberly press 105" It then says "Please press your party's mail box number" in it's default voice. So that all works OK. Don't know if there is a better way to accomplish the voicemail task. I'm beginning to think that the TVS95 was WAY overkill and maybe we should have just went with the built in voicemail or used the phone companies voice mail. Anyway, everything works OK. The complaint comes in picking up your voice mail. The phones are all KX-T7736's. To pick up voicemail I have to hit the intercom button on the phone and dial 107 and then wait for it to ring for 20 seconds and then it will prompt, please enter your password followed by the # sign. The question: HOW CAN I ELIMINATE THE 20 SECOND TIME IT TAKES FOR THE INTERNAL CALL TO PICK UP? I have the KX-TA Maint Console software on my laptop and looking at the setting that I think I have programed they are as follows: Difference that I can see from the normal: Jack 07 is named VOICEMAIL in the numbering plan Page 2.3 Jack 07 is set up for No Line in outgoing line preference Page 2.6 Jack 07 is set up in Group No 7 in the 600 extension Group and Group 7 is set up in a Circular Extension Hunting Page 3.4 Local Carrier Based VM is disabled. Page 6.1 [500] DISA Incomming Call Dial Mode set to Without AA, but in the AA Table I have Extensions 101 and 105 Page 6.2 [511] DISA Security mode, in the Timers section: DISA Delayed Answer Time is 12 Sec, DISA Wait time after OGM is 5 sec, DISA Ring before intercept is 20 sec, DISA Ring TIme after intercept is 20 sec, and Intercept time for internal DISA is 3 sec
Anything else you need know let me know. Again, is the TVS95 overkill? Is there a market for them second hand should we want to get rid of it and go with something simpler? I don't really see where we need multiple mailboxes. Sure it is nice to have one for Mom and Dad and 1 for the Daughter who won't be living at home forever. Would it be better to go with the QWEST (Local Carrier) Voice mail and pay them the $$$ every month for that service? It would be nice to program a button to pick up your voicemail and even better if you didn't have to input a password each time. Thanks in advance for all of your help. Mark Antry Techie home owner :-) _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
