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Home Automation FAQ : HA Equipment : Creative Control Concepts/HCS-II : HCS-DTMF Telephone Interface : Can the HCS-DTMF board send pages?

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Home Automation FAQ : HA Equipment : Creative Control Concepts/HCS-II : HCS-DTMF Telephone Interface : Can the HCS-DTMF board send pages?

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Yes and No. The HCS-DTMF board can make calls and it can send DTMF tones so it can send pages to numeric pages. The trick is programming in a delay between dialing the pager number and sending the tones for the number to send to the pager. The HCS-II cannot tell when the far side has picked up as it doesn’t sense the special tone played when the pager number answers. Also, be sure to send a # at the end of your page which signals you are done sending digits. It isn’t necessary, but makes for a cleaner exchange between you and hte pager as the pager server doesn’t have to timeout before sending the page. As for alphanumeric pages, the current HCS-DTMF board cannot send pages to them (except for numeric pages) sinc eit does not have an onboard modem to connect to the remote pager service.