HAL/voice recognition and M1?

[acdcelectric]

Hal will allow you to change the attendion key. I can;t recall where in the setup screen that is off hand, but look in the online manual, it has a great index. it has to,becasue it is 1200 pages long...lol

 

[damage]

The deeper I dig the more twists I find.

I noticed that to get HAL's attention via the phone you dial # the only problem I have is I am using a Viking intercom/door entry system (model C-1000B) which also uses # instruction. Viking use it to either disconnect or dial the door station.

So in this case I would wake HAL up but also annunicate the HAL instruction to the door station unit on HAL.

The complete Viking instruction set is here http://www.vikingelectronics.com/products/pdf/c-1000b.pdf

Is there a work around that makes a workable solution so that both can work without clashing?

Cheers,

Fleetz

you'll need a special HAL modem to do telephone VR. and all your home phone lines have to wire directly to the HAL modem in order for you to have local phone control.

 

[fleetz]

Thanks for the replies.

No problem wiring the house phones directly to HAL and the HAL dedicated modem.

I have been told that the only other attention prompt is "*" button which unfortunately the VIKING uses ** to envoke the relay that fires the relay that controls the striker.

I will have a look at the on line manual.

Have jumped a number of hurdles to get this far to get HAL into my system it would be a bummer to stumble at fall at the last steeple over a * or a #.......

Cheers,

Fleetz

 

[hucker]

fleetz:

Is it a requirement that all of the phones operate with HAL and the Viking? Perhaps you could use this to your advantage by having some phones operated with one or the other.

Chuck

 

[acdcelectric]

Just remember that the Hal modem and voice portal must be ahead of all other phones in order to work properly. If not, any phone off- hook ahead of Hal will prevent voice control.

 

[fleetz]

Thanks Hucker for the laterial approach to the issue.

The appeal I saw with implementing the Viking and having the phones throught the house was that anyone would be able to answer the door from a house phone. It is a reasonable size house and plane on having 4 phone to service not only the phone requirements but also the door/intercom too.

I would prefer not to have a duplicate set of phones distributed throughout the house just to service one of the two functions.

Thanks Acdcelectric for flagging where the HAL modem and voice portal must be for correct operation. I am installing one of the Panasonic Giga range of wireless 5.8Ghz phone systems where the base station is wired to phone line and the other 3 handsets are connected wirelessly.

So i would have wired it

Phone in line > Mode 3 (RJ-31X) to M1 > HAL modem > VOIP > VIKING & Panasonic (Bridged) W/L base station which 3 handsets connect.

If there is no work around on the attention prompt HAL is the likely one to go which will be disappointing.

Thanks for the input

Fleetz

 

[acdcelectric]

Here's the procedure for changing the ATTENTION key on the phone.

Right click on the EAR icon at the bottom of your screen.

Click on OPEN SYSTEM SETTINGS .

Click on the telephone Icon and SETTINGS at the bottom of the pop up window.

In the middle of the next windon you can select any number or symbol on the keypad as your ATTENTION key (if you can't use the symbols, you will have to figure out which digit you almost never use to start a call...probably 0).

When you are finished, click APPLY then DONE; and DONE again on the remaining window. You will have to restart HAL to apply the new setting.

 

[hucker]

In the middle of the next windon you can select any number or symbol on the keypad as your ATTENTION key (if you can't use the symbols, you will have to figure out which digit you almost never use to start a call...probably 0).

Aren't international call's prefixed with 011?

 

[acdcelectric]

Yes, but if Fleetz can't use the # or * key, he has to use a digit. Unless he makes international calls a lot, he can always reset the attention key in Hal when he needs to use the leading 0 in a phone call.

 

[fleetz]

Thanks guys I don't see a problem if I can select say number 7 for example. It is not a prefix to anything here in Australia. Even if you accidently hit 7 and wake HAL up it would be no different to dialling a wrong number. Just hang up and dial again.

Who is using HAL with ELK? Or HAL in general for that matter be good to get some feedback from end users.

Cheers,

Fleetz