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Re: (ASCEND) Caller ID prob with new P75

The date/time is passed to the Pipe; it just doesn't capture and display
it. It also shows IDs from areas that don't support caller ID as being
blocked when they aren't. It should have been talked about by now in a FAQ
or some other relevant (here?) place.

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> From: Ken Mandelberg <km@mathcs.emory.edu>
> To: ascend-users@bungi.com
> Subject: (ASCEND) Caller ID prob with new P75
> Date: Sunday, August 10, 1997 6:04 PM
> 
> I have one of the 5.0B P75's and tried testing the analog port
> caller id feature that it supports. So far it works with just one of
> the 3 Caller ID boxes I've tried.
> 
> I think the problem may be timestamps. On the one it works with
> the calling number shows, but without a timestamp. On the two
> it doesn't work with, I get an error condition from the caller id
> box reflecting a data error. My guess is that when they don't
> get a timestamp they give up on the call.
> 
> All of the boxes have a clock display, but depend on setting the
> clock from the first incoming call. This never happens.
> 
> My conjecture is that the P75 doesn't get a timestamp in the ISDN call
> setup message from the switch to pass on. Also since its own clock
> is not settable, they chose not to synthesize a time stamp from its
> time since boot clock.
> 
> ===
> 
> An unrelated caller id issue, is the extended caller id information
> that identifies the name of the caller. I know my provider (BellSouth)
> doesn't offer this over ISDN, so its no surprise I don't get it.
> 
> Do other providers offer it, and if so would the P75 extract it and
> send it to the caller id box?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ken Mandelberg      | km@mathcs.emory.edu          
> Emory University    | 
> Dept of Math and CS | Phone: Voice (404) 727-7963 
> Atlanta, GA 30322   |        FAX 727-5611
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