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

[Steph Kerman]

Don,

That is very interesting.  While it is true that the existing hardware 
inherently splits the line, a hardware modification might be designed 
now that there is known to be firmware support for this on-the-fly mode. 

I assume that once timeout occurs and # is sent, it no longer recognizes 
DP and will not split the line if DP is received.

Steph

Donald Froula wrote:
> 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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