RE: Comfort and Telephones

["Dan Hoehnen" <dhoehnen@xxxxxxx>]

Chiu,

There is 1 more thing you can do with option 2 below to make it better by
ringing ALL phones.  To do this, you will need an unused CO on your phone
system (a CO is the line coming into your house).  For example, I have a
4x16 phone system (4 CO's).  But, I only have 2 lines, so I have 2 extra
CO's.  I programmed my phone system for 3 CO's, but made the 3rd one not
available to any extension for outgoing calls (which makes sense since I
only have 2 lines).  This ensures that when I pick up an extension to make
a
call, the extension only connects to line 1 or line 2 (whichever is
available) and not to line 3.

Now you connect the TEL OUT of Comfort to the 3rd CO input on the phone
system.  Thus, when Comfort rings this, the phone system thinks there is an
incoming call on line 3 and rings ALL phones.

I really like this setup in my house.  Any phone can connect to the Comfort
extension and access the keypad functions.  Any phone can answer the keypad
at the door.  All phones ring when the doorbell is pressed.  Comfort takes
voice messages for calls on both line 1 and line 2.

The only downside, as you have mentioned, is that Comfort can not take
control of 1 of the lines in order to dial out in an emergency.  This is
not
a problem for me.

Dan

> You can connect Comfort to a telephone system in two ways:
> 1 - Incoming telephone line into Comfort, then from Comfort into the
> phone system
> 2 - Comfort connected to one of the extensions
>
> With the first option, Comfort has priority when making an outgoing
> call as it can grab the line from the rest of the telephones. When
> the door station rings the phones, all the extension telephones can
> ring (if so programmed). To access Comfort from any telephone
> extension, you have to select the CO line (or press 9 or 0) then
> press * code and #. One disadvantage is the answering machine will
> work only on one of the incoming lines (which Comfort is connected to)
> You have to set the PABX option in Engineer Menu 7,2 (or in CSXpress)
>
> With the 2nd option, Comfort can be connected to an analog extension
> which most telephone systems can provide. Comfort can answer all
> incoming calls from all the CO lines and take messags. For Door
> station it will ring only the phone connected to its own TEL out and
> not all the extensions. It is also less secure in case of an alarm if
> all the telephone lines are used - there may not be a line to call
> out.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> chiu
>
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> --- In ukha_d@y..., Mike Griffiths <mike@a...> wrote:
> > The  more I read about comfort on this news group the more I want
> one
> > How does comfort interface with a telephone exchange
> > Can you get all the door answering facilities or does the system
> assume no
> > exchange
> > Thanks in Advance
> > Mike
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