Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Alarm Autodialers Message-ID: <15431@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 15 Dec 90 08:02:43 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 37 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 883, Message 6 of 9 Robert Wier writes: > In article <15381@accuvax.nwu.edu>, William.Degnan@f39.n382.z1. > fidonet.org (William Degnan) writes: > > One of the toys with which I have played is the Sensaphone. > My major gripe is that it's not remotely programmable. It does have a couple of other drawbacks. It is rotary dial only, the "acknowledgement" comes, not from the callee entering TT, but from him calling the unit right back after being called. Being called by one of these units was quite a treat, which reminds me of an amusing incident I had with one. The Sensaphone monitored temperature, ambient sound level, if the AC was on, and a two sets of contacts. None of these conditions could be "bypassed". You could set ridiculous temperature limits and you could bypass the contacts, but the built-in microphone was nasty. I set one of these things up in my living room behind my left speaker. I put four numbers in it to call friends, but hadn't informed them of this device yet. The next day, during a Shostakovich symphony the my phone kept ringing. Finally, I couldn't ignore it any longer. It was my business partner (at the time) who asked how I was enjoying my music. It seems the Sensaphone was triggered by the stereo system and called the list, announcing to all that "the sound level is HIGH", and then played a fifteen second realtime sample. At least that was amusing. What my friends didn't seem to think was funny was the 3:30 AM call announcing that "the power is OFF"! That thing soon found its place in a big box in the garage. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !