[VoIP] Mitel Smart-1 as Pulse to Tone Converter - Converts digit-by-digit!

[Donald Froula]

My impression was the Smart-1 was strictly a store and
forward device that enforced one fixed route for each
length string of dialed digits.

However, I found a route combination that translates
dial pulses to touch tones as they are dialed,
variable length.

I set the default route (0) to "#8032#007##"

I then set search table 801 to "#9#8"

The search table will mach any first rotary digit and
go to route 0. Route 0 waits for a valid dialtone
(retrying if not found) and sends the first digit,
translated to DTMF. It will then wait for the
inter-digit timeout period, send a DTMF #, and cut
through. The interesting thing is that one can rotary
dial any number of digits after the first and they
will be translated to DTMF as they are dialed. After
the inter-digit time pause, the DTMF "#" is sent to
terminate the entry to the ATA. This allows any length
number of any number to be dialed. 

I'm not sure if this behavior is specific to the
firmware in my Smart-1, but it works like this with
the route encoding mentioned above. Very convenient!
However, the user is still blocked from hearing any
sounds from the line side until the dialing is
completed and the call cuts through the Smart-1.

Don

> 
> --- Greg Blakely <greg at vyger.net> wrote:
> 
> > The default route in a SMART-1 is run by this
> > command:
> > 
> > #80327##
> > 
> > The first three digits translate to "wait for
> > precise dial tone", and
> > the rest of it amounts to "dial the number and cut
> > through."
> > 
> > If the precise dial tone has timed out, the
> SMART-1
> > does not detect it,
> > and **should** hang up and then re-seize the line,
> > detect the dial tone,
> > and then dial and cut through.
> > 
> > If this is not happening, it may be that the #803
> > part of the sequence
> > is missing...  
> > 
> > Something to check, anyway.
> > 
> > Greg.
> > 
> > PS.  I'm fairly good at programming SMART-1
> dialers,
> > since I installed
> > them for a 0+ provider for about three years, back
> > in the late 1980s and
> > early 1990s.  I'm not an expert, by any means, but
> I
> > can usually get
> > them running.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: voip-bounces at ckts.info
> > [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf
> > Of
> > > Donald Froula
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:11 PM
> > > To: voip at ckts.info
> > > 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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