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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 15:45:19 GMT
- From: add@philabs.philips.com (Aninda V. Dasgupta)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Monitoring Dialtone for Voicemail Indicator
- Message-ID: <telecom12.637.5@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff, New York
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 637, Message 5 of 7
- Lines: 33
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- At work we have a Meridian-1 PBX system with Voicemail facilities.
- The problem is that if I have a new Voicemail message I have no way of
- finding out unless I lift the handset. If I have any message(s) I get
- a breaking dialtone, otherwise a normal one. I wish to find a
- solution so that I can see a little lamp on my phoneset glow when I
- have messages.
-
- One obvious solution would be to rig up a circuit which periodically
- goes off hook and a one-shot gets triggered in case of a breaking
- dialtone. However, if everybody (there are 300 of us at these labs.)
- did that then the PBX could potentially run out of lines and give
- delayed dialtone to "real" users.
-
- My questions to netfolk/telecom-gurus is :
-
- Is this really such a whacky solution? I mean, if my circuit went off
- hook once every two minutes to monitor the dialtone, would that create
- a huge problem for the PBX when everybody had such a device? What
- might be a better interval to monitor the dialtone? Is there any other
- way to monitor the break in dialtone voltage without going off hook?
- If so, where can I get a good reference/source for such information
- (about the four wires that come into my phoneset?) Any help will be
- greatly appreciated, by me and all my co-workers.
-
-
- Thanks much.
-
- Aninda DasGupta (add@philabs.philips.com)
- Ph : (914) 945-6071 Fax : (914) 945-6552
- Philips (No, we don't produce Gas, we make lightbulbs) Labs.
- 345 Scarborough Road\n Briarcliff Manor\n NY 10510
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