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External Paging
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GordonKapesMZ4
Programmer
Hi, DP,
Are you using a digital gateway? If so, there has been talk of getting the RJ-45 breakout kit paging port activated. This is currently under consideration by E-Metrotel but not officially released yet.
There is also a way to make the sound output on the actual UCx a paging port. Contact their technical support on this one.
The best (and extremely inexpensive) method I have found which gives the clearest and quite exceptional paging quality is taking an T series or IP series phone and removing the cover and cutting the leads to the speakers and sodering (or electrical taping) them to a cable that attaches to the page input on the amplifier.
Then you'd set that particular phone to be it's own page group, so whenever someone dials the page zone attached to the phone, the pages are broadcast over the speaker system instead of that phones extension.
Then you can also set up the Internal, External or Paging All Speaker by setting a dialing plan:
61-Internal (pages only your phones in the system and excludes the set connected to the amplifier)
62- External (pages only the set with the speaker attached to the amplifier)
63-Internal/External (pages both the set connected to the amplifier and all sets on the system)
Any of that make sense? Works quite nice for loud bells too.
Thanks,
Joe
"Keep the Peace, Use RLS"
Are you using a digital gateway? If so, there has been talk of getting the RJ-45 breakout kit paging port activated. This is currently under consideration by E-Metrotel but not officially released yet.
There is also a way to make the sound output on the actual UCx a paging port. Contact their technical support on this one.
The best (and extremely inexpensive) method I have found which gives the clearest and quite exceptional paging quality is taking an T series or IP series phone and removing the cover and cutting the leads to the speakers and sodering (or electrical taping) them to a cable that attaches to the page input on the amplifier.
Then you'd set that particular phone to be it's own page group, so whenever someone dials the page zone attached to the phone, the pages are broadcast over the speaker system instead of that phones extension.
Then you can also set up the Internal, External or Paging All Speaker by setting a dialing plan:
61-Internal (pages only your phones in the system and excludes the set connected to the amplifier)
62- External (pages only the set with the speaker attached to the amplifier)
63-Internal/External (pages both the set connected to the amplifier and all sets on the system)
Any of that make sense? Works quite nice for loud bells too.
Thanks,
Joe
"Keep the Peace, Use RLS"
Cutting the speaker leads from a very cheap old phone works fine for any paging system I've seen.
Back when the first Sanyo 612 systems came out (mid 80's) you needed to use a CO position for paging and I started cutting the speaker leads on a standard set (about $80) when they couldn't spare one of the six COs.
I know there are newer fancier gizmos, but sometimes they cost a bit and you can do stuff easier and cheaper.
I've used single line phones to trip a relay, they taught us all that stuff in ITT school way back when. We learned how to do 1A2 ring matrixes, and as Sid Welvang used to say, "Read the Print." All the stuff at that time was a piece of paper, not a .pdf.
Back when the first Sanyo 612 systems came out (mid 80's) you needed to use a CO position for paging and I started cutting the speaker leads on a standard set (about $80) when they couldn't spare one of the six COs.
I know there are newer fancier gizmos, but sometimes they cost a bit and you can do stuff easier and cheaper.
I've used single line phones to trip a relay, they taught us all that stuff in ITT school way back when. We learned how to do 1A2 ring matrixes, and as Sid Welvang used to say, "Read the Print." All the stuff at that time was a piece of paper, not a .pdf.
GordonKapesMZ4
Programmer
BrachaM, I have a video I did on how to set this up. I will post on youtube this weekend.
"Keep the Peace, Use RLS"
"Keep the Peace, Use RLS"
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