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This page specifies whether a Whozz Calling? device is to be used, and its configuration.
Whozz Calling? devices are caller id monitoring devices manufactured by CallerID.com. They sell a range of devices that monitor from two to eight phone lines. Most of their devices can be daisy-chained together to monitor up to 56 phone lines on one serial port. Ascendis Caller ID supports the following Whozz Calling? devices:
Whozz Calling? devices report caller information more reliably than most modems, and are much easier to install and use for multi-line environments. They cannot hang up the phone or play or record sounds over the phone.
Configure the Whozz Calling? device with the following controls:
Enable Whozz Calling? device on:
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Enables or disables Whozz Calling? device support and specifies the COM (or serial) port to which the device is connected. If unsure, check the back of the computer to see which port the device is attached to. Most computers label the ports with "IOIOI" and a "1" or "2". These correspond to COM1 and COM2, respectively.
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Phone lines to monitor
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Specifies the number of phone lines connected to the Whozz Calling? device to monitor. One registration is required for each phone line to monitor. Please see the Licensing topic for more information on registrations. Specifying more phone lines than are connected to the device will not help.
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Enable distinctive ring reporting
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Tells Ascendis Caller ID to track the ring type of incoming calls. When enabled, specify multiple descriptions for each line, separated by the "pipe" character, like so:
Home | Business | Fax
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Descriptions
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Descriptions are displayed in various locations (such as the Call list and notification popup) when 'Show "Line" column in Call list' is enabled on the General Options page. If you have multiple phone lines this can be useful for distinguishing between them. You can change each description to anything you want, such as the phone number of the monitored phone line, or perhaps "Home" for one and "Business" for another.
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Clients
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Specifies the IP addresses of network clients to receive calls for this line of this device. If this is blank, all network clients will receive all calls. Otherwise list the IP addresses of clients to receive calls for this line, separated by semicolons. Examples:
192.168.0.5
192.168.0.5;192.168.0.6
Ranges are not supported -- each IP address must be listed, or none.
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The OK button saves any changes you made to the properties and closes the window. The Cancel button closes the window without saving changes. The Help button brings up this topic in the help file.
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