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Re: Comfort installation problems...



Hi Paul
 
I had an old BT Plug to RJ11 modem lead that I cut up.  I then put the BT plug into 1st analogue port on Highway and wired this into the Telephone IN on Comfort (wires 2 and 5).
 
Then take the two wires Out of Comfort and wire them into a Master Socket (onto positions 2 and 5 again obviously).
 
Now wire your phones into this Master Socket on wires 2, 5 and 3 for the ring.
 
M.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 October 1999 13:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] Re: Comfort installation problems...

Mark,

I've probably got this information already, but I've really not had any
opportunity to study the manuals (work, work, work!), but, would it be
possible for you to give me a schematic of how you have yours connected? -
you know, what pin(s) on the BT Digital access box analogue line 1 out got
to where, and so on.... I'm going to try to work on this one myself to see
if I can't save Raj some pain...

Very much obliged...

Paul.


>From: "Mark McCall" <Mark@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Comfort installation problems...
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:06:06 +0100
>
>Sorry to hear about your problems Paul!
>
>I can answer question 1 at least...
>I have BT Highway too and Comfort works fine.  I have Comfort connected
>(via
>BT plug) into the first analogue port.  Then the "Telephone Out" on
>Comforts
>main panel is wired into a _Master_ socket.  All the phones in the
house
>then wire into this master socket.
>
>On the other point has Raj tried swapping out the main panel incase it
has
>a
>fault?
>
>Good luck!
>
>M.
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 22 October 1999 10:25
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Comfort installation problems...
>
>
>Sorry for posting to this list instead of the Comfort list - but the
>Comfort
>list seems to be disabled at the moment, and I seem to see most of the
same
>people on both this list and that one, so hopefully I'll still be
reaching
>out to the right people.....
>
>
>A Plea for help!!
>
>I'm currently having a whole world of problems with my Comfort
installation
>- or rather Raj from Optix systems is!... (Raj is the chap who was on
TV
>the
>other evening in the item on the news about comfort, and is the
installer
>recommended to me by Andrew) Raj has now spent two whole days at my
house,
>each time until 9PM or so, and I think I've taken years off his life!!
>
>Problems are as follows:
>
>1) No phone function whatsoever - we cannot get comfort connected to
the
>line without breaking all internal phone function. - I have BT Highway
>installed, and have an NTE5 master socket and an NTE9 digital access
box.
>All internal phones are on analogue line 1, the incoming line from the
pole
>goes into the NTE5, a cable then goes up to the NTE9 (the next bit is
my
>guess...) Which I believe "splits" the incoming line providing any
>combination of either 2 x analogue or 2 x 64K ISDN or 1 of each....
>However,
>the cable going out to the house phone sockets comes out of the NTE5
(So I
>guess the line goes "up" to the NTE9, and then line A goes back "down"
to
>the NTE5, where the cable then takes it off around the house?) We tried
>various combinations of connecting Comfort to the Krone punch-down on
the
>NTE5, and plugging it in via an RJ11 (or is it 12?) to the line A
socket on
>the NTE9... Whenever we got to a position where Comfort could dial out
>(which we verified) internal phones were disconnected from the line (no
>dial
>tone, do not ring on an incoming call). At no point were able to get an
>internal phone to sign in (but I could get my mobile to sign in...)
>QUESTION: Does anyone have Comfort connected to an analogue line on a
BT
>Home highway installation?, can we verify that this is possible?, and
if
>so,
>how should it be connected??
>
>2) When disarming from night mode, (or trying to), the keypad locks
out,
>(only buttons 4, 5, and 6 are active on the Kompad), night mode cannot
be
>de-activated, and once the timeout period has expired, the alarm goes
off.
>In fact, if memory serves, I believe we experienced several instances
where
>the Kompad would "lock out" in this way (every button EXCEPT 4, 5,
& 6 seem
>inoperative). Also, this is usually accompanied by endless repetitions
of
>"Invalid code, call engineer to reset" being announced by the
Kompad....
>
>3) The outside door station... When the button on the outside
doorstation
>is
>pressed, sound that I can only describe as being akin to an early
eighties
>space-invaders machine emanates from the internal Kompad, and continues
to
>do so until the sign-in code is entered.
>
>
>Raj has checked, and double-checked (and in most cases triple-checked)
all
>the cabling to all the sensors and both the doorstation & the
Kompad, and
>is
>certain that everything is as it should be, he has also tried (to no
avail)
>installing a remote expansion panel with a secondary PSU in case power
>demand was causing errors. Finally, he has checked the programming
(using
>CS-Express), and is pretty confident that all is OK there as well. -
>Although Raj admits he is more familliar with programming the system
via
>the
>Kompad....
>He left my house last night about 20 years older than when he arrived,
>having finally admitted defeat, and he is not even certain that the
Panel
>is
>verifiably OK - He's at the point of suspecting faulty hardware...
>
>
>Can anyone please offer any insights (Andrew?...) - Raj is an
experienced
>professional installer of this system, and even he is totally unable to
>commssion it to a state where I have any confidence in it whatsoever -
>Currently it is just sitting there not being used - I cannot trust it
>enough
>to arm it in either night or away mode....
>
>:-(((((((((((((((
>
>As always, any assistance much appreciated..
>
>Cheers all
>
>Paul Gordon.
>
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