[VoIP] Mitel Smart-1 as Pulse to Tone Converter

[Ian Jolly]

I too have been playing with a SMarT-1  - however mine is a nifty little 
version which doesn't appear to have made it to the 'colonies'  (They are 
made here in Wales or rather were made!)

It is a SMarT-1 Compact  - about 3in wide, 4in long and about 1in thick. 
What's more it can be line powered if you only need to go from LD to DTMF ! 
All I needed to do was to reset it to the Factory Defaults.  It the 
automatically detects where the telephone is LD or DTMF  and also if the 
Line/Switch is LD or DTMF.

I'm using it with one of the SX100-FX   IAX ATA's and it seems fine. When 
you lift the telephone the dial tone is received from the ATA.  You then 
dial the digits in LD.into the 'SMarT-1 Compact'  - the only downside side 
is that it waits for about 5 seconds after the telephone has dialled the 
last digit before it decides that the dialling has finished (dialling tone 
is still present during this period). Then the digits are released on one 
train of DTMF tones.  I'm not sure if it releases the digits through as LD 
to the ATA but they don't seem to affect the ATA.  All goes well from then 
on.

The ATA has proved to be OK working both locally and as an 'extension' off a 
distant Asterisk box.  Programming took about two minutes  - only three 
boxes to fill in and another couple of boxes to tick.  I found the 
manufacturers support OK. I could not program the first unit that arrived - 
I contacted customer support by email. They 'talked' me by email, through 
whilst they worked out if the unit was faulty or whether I was!  Took couple 
of days due to the time difference. They emailed me on a Friday morning to 
say that the unit was faulty and they were despatching a new one. It arrived 
the following Monday and was in use within minutes!
The unit is the S100-FX http://www.x100p.com/products/FXS.php   They only 
seem to sell them through their eBay shop http://stores.ebay.co.uk/x100p  at 
the moment. They have just updated their website www.x100p.com  plus 
incorporated a couple of changes I suggested last week!  You can now read 
the page without scrolling left to right!   It looks as though they are 
setting up to sell direct via their website.  They've also just brought 
another 'box' that links to the S100FX to convert/add an IAX FXO port as 
well.

Ian Jolly
+44 (0)352 85 26 (via a 1929 GPO Rural Automatic eXchange - UAX5)
CNET - the Heritage Telephone Network


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Froula" <dfroula at sbcglobal.net>
To: <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 7:11 PM
Subject: [VoIP] Mitel Smart-1 as Pulse to Tone Converter


>I received my Smart-1 the other day and, after some
> head scratching over the manual and odd programming,
> got it working (sort of) as a dial pulse to tone
> converter in fromt of my ATA (a Linksys PAP2).
>
> The problem is that the Smart-1 picks up the outgoing
> phone line as soon as the phone goes off-hook. By the
> time I rotary dial all the digits and the Smart-1 cuts
> through, the PAP2 ATA has already timed out to
> reorder.
>
> I can adjust interdigit timers in the PAP2 to wait
> long enough after the first digit, but there is no
> timer I can find to control the off-hook to reorder
> timing.
>
> Ideally, I'd like the Smart-1 not to pick up and dial
> the outgoing line until it detects a pattern match on
> the incoming digits. I've been through the manual a
> few times, but can't see how this would be done.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Don
>
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