[hylafax-users] Damn! Hylafax, Multitech, and distinctive ring

[George Bell <gbell5@cox.net>]

Just spent about a day trying to get hylafax working with my single 
phone line.  It is provisioned with a second phone number via 
distinctive ring.  My results:

*$!@! Modem(Multitech MTS5634ZPX-PCI-V92) seems only implements the 
following Voice commands:

+VCID  ( caller id )
+VDR   ( distinctive ring report )

The distinctive ring comes as two short rings as compared to a regular 
voice ring.  These are reported by +VDR as DRON=8 and DROFF=variable(I 
have seen go from 8 - 40 in tenths of a second).   Well, it apears the 
Multitech modem won't give me a RING1 or RING2, as I had hoped.  It just 
gives me this fricken distinctive ring report.  So, I tried to use that. 
 I noticed that whenever a call comes in on the fax number the VDR 
reports DRON=8, so I tried entering a RingFax:    "DRON=8" in my 
config.ttySN file, but hylafax isn't buying it.  So the VDR feature 
seems useless.

I have RingsBefore Answer set to "2".  Hylafax will answer the call in 
two rings if the fax number is called as entered in the config file. 
 However, when I dial in on my regular voice number, HylaFax answers the 
call about 4 rings later, still as fax(of course).   Although that's 
fine, I seem to have no control over this parameter or how to use it for 
anything.

Any Ideas?

George



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