New customer last week was telling our installer they keep getting 911 responses to their dairy barn, it turns out they have a milking system that connects to a Frontier landline that is very unreliable, and the random interruptions would occasionally dial 9-1-1. Frontier always blames it on “mice in the boxes”. I have a mental image of the mice tapping out 9-1-1. Help, we’re being held hostage in a Frontier cross box!
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 5:17 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Medical Alert Systems We used to sell emergency dialers when i worked at a radio shack, that was back when the documentation wasnt marketing. It had all kinds of warnings about not using it to dial emergency services without professional installation, keep it on backup power sources, have an alternate method for emergency contact outward, etc. I much preferred that to todays focus on helmet wearing window licking ease of installation, one button setup, and no way of knowing if it works til grandmas hip is broke at the bottom of the stairs On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 3:58 PM Sean Heskett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Apple Watch with cellular is what we did for my mom. When it calls 911 it will also txt whomever you want to also alert them to the 911 call -Sean On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 9:47 AM Nate Burke <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I have some relatives that are getting elderly and still living on their own. Landline only (Frontier, so it mostly works), they don't even have a cell phone. It seems like a lot of devices now are geared towards the smart home market, where they presume that you have an internet connection. Other devices are $20 or $30/month for the monitoring/answering service. There are other family members close by, so it really just needs a wireless panic button that can make an outbound call to them. A cordless phone is probably more technical that can be handled, and I know that it would rarely leave it's base station. So a pendent/watch is much more preferable. Just brainstorming, Preferably, dial a list of numbers until someone answers and confirms via keypress or something. Does something like that exist? -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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