RE: Re: Meteor CID and Comfort???

["Iain Goodhew" <iain.goodhew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had this problem. I too have an ntl phone line, and connected the meteor
to comforts 'tel out' and comfort stopped answering the calls. I didn't
notice for quite sometime. I believe I asked on the comfort mailing list,
and the suggestion was the same, connect the meteor before comfort. I don't
know why this should make a difference, I can only guess that comfort miss
interpretes the on hook/off hook current flowing to the meteor device and
assumes the call has been answered.



I simply used another pair on the same phone cat5 and have 2 sockets on the
end, one before comfort for the meteor and one after comfort for the phone.



Iain



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From: rb_ziggy [mailto:richard.boreham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 November 2004 18:15
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Meteor CID and Comfort???




Hm!  Yes it's wired into the house phone patch.  So we have master
phone socket -> comfort tel out -> patch panel and then n-way star
distribution from there, one of which is the Meteor.  So Comfort is
first. Could the Meteor thus be signalling Comfort in the way a phone
does when it's picked up (afraid I know little about phones)?

I did notice that Meteor is wired with a 4 core cable to the phone
socket (nos, 2,3,4,5) rather than the usual 2 (2 and 5). I know this
because I reterminated the BT plug to an RJ45 so that it fits the cat
5 sockets.  Not sure if this is of relevance at all.

Also, should have mentioned we are NTL for phones.

It would be a bit of a pain to wire the Meteor in parallel back to
the master socket so any other ideas gratefully received.

Regards

Richard

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "John B" <home-automation@j...>
wrote:
> > Anyone using a Meteor unit successfully with Comfort?
>
> Yes.
>
> > I have a Meteor plumbed into my PC which has ACE & CWI
running.
That
> > all works fine with the number being recognised and sent to the
CWI.
> > However, when the Comfort answer phone now no longer works (i.e.
it
> > does not pick up an unanswered call).  Unplug the Meteor and it
works
> > fine again.  It seems that the Meteor interferes in some way so
that
> > Comfort thinks the call has been answered.
>
> Is your Meteor connected to the Tel Out terminals of Comfort (i.e.
with your house phones)?
> Or is it wired in before Comfort?
>
> Mine is wired in parallel with Comfort to the incoming phone line
(i.e. not to Tel Out) and Comfort's answer machine works fine.
>
> HTH,
>
> John