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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: michael on February 11, 2006, 06:39:52 PM
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I am planning to set up the TR16A on a line
currently used only by a fax machine. If I
set up the controller to respond only when
the PIN number is entered, will I still need
to wait 15 seconds before I can enter the pin
number or can the number be entered at any
time? This is important because I want to be
able to control the TR16A before the fax
machine picks up the line. Also, will the
unit still beep 3 times when set this way, or
will it simply remain silent until the pin
number is entered?
Thanks.
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Is the TR16A going to answer the phone or
the fax machine? I maybe able to run a test.
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The fax machine will answer the phone, but
I'd like to be able to input the pin number
before it picks up.
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I will see what I can find with mine.
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Michael - If the fax machine answers the
phone, how will you enter PIN in TR16. It is
either fax OR TR16, not both isn't it?
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The TR16 can be set to be a lurker. Just
listen for the pin after something answeres,
but how you stop the fax from starting it's
connect tone?
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Great. The fax only picks up if something
else doesn't pick up first, so I could just
increase the number of rings before it picks
up. The TR16A will be installed at a small
business and the phone system is too complex
to set it up on any other line. The idea is
that when the modem crashes and I can't
remote desktop into my office computer, I can
reset it remotely without driving all the way
to the office and back. We already have a few
left over X10 modules from the aqua
controller 2 we have set up.
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That may work as the TR16A can be set to
answer first.