KX-T: KX-TD308 DISA findings and related
I wanted to try some things out with the DISA card, but didn't want to enable it on my (single) outside line. So, I did what I've seen mentioned for several other situations -- I looped an analog port back in as an incoming line, figuring this would "simulate" a second line, and would allow me to test things. I played around with the auto attendant settings and got everything working reasonably, late one night. Well, I got a call at work the next day from my wife who wanted to know why the phone was being answered automatically and callers were being presented with a "press one for ..." menu, etc. And why two lights were lighting up. Well, veterans will probably see this coming, but it took me a lot of head scratching and staring at things to figure this out. Finally, it was the second light lighting up that clued me in. What was happening was that the incoming call on the outside line was ringing at all extensions, including the analog extension that was looped back in as incoming line 2. Well, line 2 gets answered automatically and plays the DISA menu, which subsequently goes out line 1. I was able to correct this in program 603/604 by disabling the ringing of that particular extension for incoming calls. Phew. My plan (which I did post here) was to have a DISA/AA menu with names of everyone in the family, but rather than having calls go to a particular extension, each person would get a phantom extension, and each phone would have a button assigned for each phantom. That way, you could tell whom the call was for by what button was lit. I then wanted to employ IRNA to route unanswered calls to the answering machine. Someone replied to my earlier post suggesting some part of the plan wouldn't work. Well, to my surprise, it all seems to work. Now all I have to do is convince my wife that it's a good thing, or it will be forever relegated to the fake incoming line... _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
KX-T: KX-TD308 Questions
1. Is there any way to "name" a phantom extension? 2. Is there any way for an SLT to default to external dialtone, rather than intercom dialtone? 3. What are the possible reasons for stutter dialtone? I've got no VM setup and no lights are lit on this extension. (I did reset it via Station Feature Clear (790), but if it happens again, maybe there's a smaller sledgehammer I could apply...) _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
KX-T: Re: External Modem
You can contact John Almont at Communicatortel [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 777-1036 He's has some zoom modems already programmed for the tvs. They cost around $100 each, but they work. I've spent hours trying to get commands to work right on various modems I have lying around here. I just took two of his to a customer's site, plugged them in and they worked flawlessly. Charles - Original Message - From: Bill Wiggins To: kxthelp Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:16 AM Subject: KX-T: External Modem Can anyone recommend a good external modem for programming a 816 or 1232. Or if you have one to sell, and you know the correct command codes please contact me Bill _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
KX-T: Re: "improved?" panapatch
Just for reference, 568-B is not exactly "compatible" with phone wiring color codes. 568-A is. As long as you are using patch panels and patch cords you will never know the difference though. But if you take jacks that are wired 568-B, then punch them down on a 66 block for cross connecting, then the green and orange will be in reversed positions. Since the KXT proprietary phones rely on the orange pair (3-6), this could cause confusion... In other words, a 25 pair cable coming out of the ksu will use the blue and orange pair for the first extension. If you connect that to a jack wired with 568-B, you will have to remember to connect the orange ksu pair to the green pair on the jack. AT&T is the only phone manufacturer I know that liked to use 568b for all their jacks. Since their small ksu's were usually modular to modular, it didn't make too much difference... that is until you try to replace the system with a Panasonic, and now find that all the jacks won't work right. As long as it works! Charles - Original Message - From: Tom Stewart To: KXT Help List Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: KX-T: "improved?" panapatch As I said in an earlier email, I love the idea of the PanaPatch, but the price was too much for me (home owner/hobbyist), so I wanted to share my experiences with the group. I had wired my house quite some time ago with Cat5E cable, two runs per outlet, and generally two outlets per room. The idea was one network port and one phone port (and one cable tv) per box. Since it was compatible with standard phone wiring and plugs, I wired both data and phone jacks with 568-B wiring, straight thru. On the head end, the wiring terminates in a standard 24 port patch panel. So, for my situation, I bought another patch panel via ebay, and wired up a 25 pair cable to it, in very much the same fashion as the PanaPatch, except that I dediced to do something with the fourth pair. For pins 1 and 8, I punched them down with one continuous pair (daisy-chained) which is terminated in an RJ-11. This I can plug into one analog jack on the front to provide one common "extension" to all jacks. In my case, I have plugged it into the port that provides CallerID. In this way, I have callerID available at every jack; I just have to wire up a funky line cord with an RJ- 45 connected to two separate RJ-11's -- one of which connects pins 3-6 on the RJ-45 to 1-4 on the RJ-11 for the standard connection, and another which connects pins 1,8 on the RJ-45 to 2,3 on the second RJ-11. This can then get plugged into a caller ID box for display. If I had to do it over, I *might* do the phone wiring as RJ-61 instead of T568- B, since currently the two outer pairs aren't twisted correctly for my application. I'm hoping it doesn't matter... Anyway, just wanted to pass along the thought. _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
KX-T: He'll be telling this story for a long time
WHile looking for a 61610 box on eBay, I bid on a system that had 1 7030 and a pair of 7050's plus the KSU. Of course I bid up to the magnificent sum of $288. Evidently, someone got caught up in auction fever because the final price was $515 Why are my bidders so cheap? Carl Navarro _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
KX-T: Whoops, wrong item...ignore that :-(
Maybe it wasn't such a bad deal after all. It was for SIX 7030's and the KSU. Carl _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
Re: KX-T: He'll be telling this story for a long time
Carl Navarro wrote: WHile looking for a 61610 box on eBay, I bid on a system that had 1 7030 and a pair of 7050's plus the KSU. Of course I bid up to the magnificent sum of $288. Evidently, someone got caught up in auction fever because the final price was $515 Why are my bidders so cheap? That's GOTTA be a Murphy's Law corollary! _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
KX-T: Attn: Charles
I sent you a couple of emails... Am I getting caught in a spam filter or something? Thanks! (and sorry to everyone else :) ) _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
KX-T: VM transfer problem....
System: TVS50 on a TA624 using APT on ports 7 & 8 When the voice mail transfers an incoming call to an extension the user has to press the incoming line (CO) to answer the call. The VM has answered the incoming call, the caller enters the extension number (like 103), the VM says "wait a moment", the extension rings, display shows VM port, intercom flashes green, CO flashes red. The user picks up the call (lifts handset or speakerphone button) and gets dead air. CO line keeps flashing red until user presses CO button. Same problem on all stations. This is the last thing I did that may have caused it: I wanted to get rid of the "You have a call" message when the VM sends an incoming call to the user. I searched for a solution and found this setup for the VM: change the Station Transfer from "FX" to "FXA" (Flash Extension Answer) in the VM hardware settings. It got rid of the "you have a call" but then we noticed this problem. Changing back to "FX" didn't fix the problem and doesn't seem to turn on the "you have a call" message. My guess is the VM is somehow just calling the extension instead of transferring the incoming call. Help! multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html _ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
