Paging woes...grrrrrrrr........

[Tripoth]

IP Office 9.1.3
Basic mode

Paging port is set up as one of the analog ports on a combo card.
Paging was working fine and then.......some programming disappeared on the phones one day. Just the paging buttons mind you.

Placed the buttons back on the phones.
Pagiing did not work. It does work through the phones in group 1.
Plugged directly into the paging port with my test set on monitor and get a busy signal when I call the port.
Swap port over to standard mode to make sure I still have dial tone and I can call the port. Yep, works fine.
Changed the loudspeaker paging port over to all 4(2 combo cards) analog ports on the phone system and STILL get a busy when I try to page.
Nothing has changed physically from the install to now. Amp and speakers work because I made everyone think there was an ambulance racing through the store with my toner. Maybe I should have warned them?

It was suggested that I upgrade to 9.1.4 because .3 was more buggy than a Louisianna swamp in summer time.

Any other suggestions?

 

[rollymaster]

you need Valcom VMT-1 to make it work

 

[techguy137]

I love putting my toner on a paging system. Freaks everyone out.

I typically use Valcom equipment without any amplifier unless i need to do zone paging as the valcom stuff is self amplified.
I usually setup a button on the phone with the action=dial paging action data= ext# of the page port

If you have an extension setup as a page speaker the call will be rejected if you try and call it directly.

Also I use a screw terminal style RJ11 surface biscuit block and wire the T/R from the page port to the T/R of the biscuit with a 680 ohm 1/2w resistor between the T/R. I then come off the RJ11 port to the T/R of my paging speaker. That helps keep the port open for paging. (found that little trick right here on this forum!!) you don't have to use the biscuit just as long as the resistor is across T/R.

 

[holdmusic34]

Yep. The port needs to held open after a reboot.
I second the motion of putting a 680ohm 0.5W resistor across the tip and ting.

If you are on a Phone 2 card, I have found that analogue telephony on this card is affected when this occurs.
If there is a fax on the next analogue port you may find it may only ring once after the system boots up.
Paging is fine- 'great knock yourself out kids' but it causes power issues for other analogue ports.
It's like the card has an REN and .it can't pass through the 48VDC ring voltage.
I'm putting in a second phone 2 card to see if it fixes the issue. I suspect it will.


Every time I have a headache I have to keep away from children, as per the instructions on the bottle.