tonyquan
04-07-2007, 08:48 PM
had a problem with my panasonic phone where the voicemail indicator light wouldn't turn off after I had deleted my voicemails. it would turn off only if I picked up the phone again or hit the button that explicitly cleared the indicator. Looking at the PAP2T "Info" page, I could see that "Message Waiting" actually went from "Yes" to "No" fairly quickly after I deleted a message, so didn't look like a problem with the PAP2T knowing how many voicemails I had.
after searching a bit, found this page:
http://www.sandman.com/messwait.html
which explains that FSK for the message waiting indicator is more reliable than having your phone listen for the "stutter" tone. I set about looking for a way to make FSK work on the PAP2T after I verified from a web search that my phone does understand FSK...it appears most recent phones do.
Looking at the Sipura docs here:
http://www.sipura.com/Documents/SipuraSPAUserGuidev2.0.9.pdf
there are only two things to change:
On the "Line 1" page in the PAP2T, set "VMWI Serv" to "Yes". This actually turns on FSK.
On the "User 1" page in the PAP2T, set "VMWI Ring Splash Len" to "0" (zero). without this second step, you get a brief (.5 sec) ring whenever the voicemail indicator turns on. Maybe you like that but I don't.
after that, things worked like a charm, the indicator turns off almost immediately (at least as fast as it does on my old POTS service)
of course, to make this stick, you'll have to ask ViaTalk to change the provisioning for your line if you have a provisioned PAP2T. why it isn't like this by default, who knows.
after searching a bit, found this page:
http://www.sandman.com/messwait.html
which explains that FSK for the message waiting indicator is more reliable than having your phone listen for the "stutter" tone. I set about looking for a way to make FSK work on the PAP2T after I verified from a web search that my phone does understand FSK...it appears most recent phones do.
Looking at the Sipura docs here:
http://www.sipura.com/Documents/SipuraSPAUserGuidev2.0.9.pdf
there are only two things to change:
On the "Line 1" page in the PAP2T, set "VMWI Serv" to "Yes". This actually turns on FSK.
On the "User 1" page in the PAP2T, set "VMWI Ring Splash Len" to "0" (zero). without this second step, you get a brief (.5 sec) ring whenever the voicemail indicator turns on. Maybe you like that but I don't.
after that, things worked like a charm, the indicator turns off almost immediately (at least as fast as it does on my old POTS service)
of course, to make this stick, you'll have to ask ViaTalk to change the provisioning for your line if you have a provisioned PAP2T. why it isn't like this by default, who knows.