Change a digital ext to an analog ext

[RagingBender]

I have an extension that needs to be changed from a digital (4406D+) to a analog "toy" cordless phone. Where do I go about letting Merlin/SPM know that he doesn't have to program this phone and just use it like a dumb, toy phone?

My searching on this topic has brought up "System Renumber" but I'm not sure how to go about it. We do have some existing toy phones and quite a few digital ones. What can I look at in the analog ones to "move over" to this newly analog extension?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Telecomboy]

sysrenumber is where you would go to renumber an extension to another number.

 

[RagingBender]

But I'd like to keep the same extension number (it's the same person, just now with a cordless phone instead of a 4406D+), I just want to change it from Digital to Analog.

Is that the place for it?

 

[Telecomboy]

Yes, say his digital extension is 100 and the analog extension is 200. Go to sys renumber, single, extension. Enter old extension: put 100, enter new extension: put 300 (or some other number you know is not being used by the system-you'll know because if it is being used it will beep at you and the screen won't change. If it accepts it, it will bring you back out to the screen where you can choose extension again). This time when you choose extension put old extension 200, new extension 100. You've now moved 100 to where 200 was. Choose extension once more. This time put old extension 300 (or whatever you used), new extension 200. Now 200 is where 100 was and 100 is where 200 was.

 

[TouchToneTommy]

Once you know the extension number of the cordless, you will renumber it to what the digital extension is right now.

Except that you have to change the extension number of the digital extension to something else first.

If the digital won't be reassigned to somebody else for right now, go to Maintenance, Port, Station, dial the digital's extension number, Enter, and Status.

Look for the Logical ID, and add 7099 to it to come up with its "Set-up Space" extension number (in the 7100 range).

Now go to System Renumber, Single, Extension, the digital extension's current number, enter, the number you came up with above, enter. Extension, the cordless' current extension number, enter, the digital's OLD number, enter, and you're done.

 

[RagingBender]

Thank you both for your replies. I just want to be clear here:

Ext 251 is currently digital. I would like to plug in an analog phone into the same wall jack and have it still be extension 251.

Both TouchToneTommy and Telecomboy seem to believe that I'm doing some sort of exchange of extensions (or maybe I'm not reading it correctly)

Now, I do want to say that I found a unused extension (196) that is currently set up with the Profile "T/R" that is grouped with a few other analog extensions. But that extension doesn't seem to be punched down at all.

It seems logical that the "best" way to do it would be to change the profile of ext 251 from "4406D+" to "T/R", but I'm not sure how that works, or if that's possible. I inherited this system from someone who's done every change via punch downs, but that isn't easy since every line connected to the phone system "eats up" test tones.

Can one of you two please confirm that I'd be doing the right thing with either of your suggestions? Thank you in advance for your time. I really appreciate it.

 

[Telecomboy]

You need to find out what extension the analog cordless phone currently is. Every phone connected to the system has an extension assigned to it. Once you figure out the extension of the analog, use my instructions and it will switch the analog extension over to the digital phone and the digital extension over to the analog phone.

 

[RagingBender]

Telecomboy: What do you mean "currently"? I'm replacing a digital phone with an analog one, so it's "currently" plugged into the same port.

251 is a digital phone extension. I'd like to remove the 4406D+ connected to it and plug in an analog cordless phone with it _still being_ extension 251.

 

[Telecomboy]

The jack the 4406 is plugged into is hard wired into the magix to a digital port. You cannot just plug an analog phone to that jack. It needs to be re-wired to an analog port on the system. Then you can renumber that analog extension to what the digital extension is.

 

[RagingBender]

Gotcha. Thanks, Telecomboy.