This is in response to all three posts, not just Phil's.
The alarm company is not involved in the day-to-day function, and
they do not have or know of any equipment to do this. The company
installs the equipment and it runs on it's own. In the case of an
alarm, one of the numbers is dials is the central station, which
handles the info from there. But the day-to-day paging is completely
internal.
The box is excessively simple. It dials a phone number, and upon
answer, dials more numbers. We have linked it to cell phones, and
when we answer it simply beeps at us as if somebody is playing with a
phone. This, of course, provides us little info as humans can't
typically interpret those tones. We have a number of standard-issue
pagers, but would like to get rid of them.
This is not 100% mission-critical, but pretty close. This system will
NOT be responsible to contacting the authorities or anything, it will
simply act like one of the pagers. It will allow us to log the
information into a database, and really do anything we want with it.
Very helpful when the pager only stores the last 30 and we have 7
stores currently. 7 stores * 2 events (open & close) = 14 pages a
day. Those 30 slots fill up quickly.
The end intention is that my software will send an email about each
event to anybody we choose. The current alarm panel requires the
technician to program who is notified, and only up to four slots. I
cannot do it because I don't have the right equipment. With a custom
system such as this, we can have as many receivers as we please, and
can update it at any time ourselves.
Long story short, there is an incredible benefit to this, and we have
already explored other options. Besides my idea, our current system
is the best we have available, but leaves me longing for more.
As for the specifics as Tim was inquiring, I have no idea. The
computer is yet to be purchased, so I have options.
--
Thom McGrath, <http://www.thezaz.com/>
"You realize you've created God in your own image when God hates all
the same people you do."
On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Phil M wrote:
Could you find out if the alarm company provides email notification
or SMS? It might be a lot easier to program for one of those formats.
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