Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: rv01@gte.com (Robert Virzi) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Need a Light to Indicate Phone *Has Rung* (Not *is Ringing*) Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 18:48:39 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA Lines: 37 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 543, message 4 of 7 On a topic slightly different than visual indication of a ringing phone, I would like a box that indicated that the phone connected to it has rung (past tense). Here's why: We have an automated answering service at work. This service picks up after a certain number of rings or on busy. The caller can leave a message, which is then placed in the called parties mailbox. The standard dialtone is then changed to stutter dialtone, to indicate a waiting message. So upon return to my office, I have to pick up the phone (and login to a unix machine and check the lan-based mailer and ... )-: ) to see if I have any messages pending. Naturally, I don't always remember to do this so I am occassionally later in returning calls than I would like to be. However, if their were a box next to my phone that lit up on a ring, and *stayed lit up* until reset, I would have a better chance of noticing and retrieving my messages in a timely manner. My first question is, does such a box exist as an off-the-shelf item? If not, does anyone have a circuit that would do this? Perhaps a mod to the various boxes suggested for visual ringing indication??? Better yet, does anyone know of a box that would periodically check my phone line and light up on detection of stutter dialtone? This would be the preferred solution as it would (a) not have to be reset manually, (b) would not false alarm if no message were left, and (c) would also catch those messages left on busy (when I'm already on the phone). Ideally, I would like to be able to set the frequency with which the line is sampled for stutter dialtone. Bob Virzi | Innuendo ... rv01@gte.com | ...!harvard!bunny!rv01 | ... and out the other.