Orchid V4, V4+ Programing Tool Support

ireneofunes

Hi guys,

First I'd like to thank Kevin for his excellent spreadsheet and Heinz for his updates!

Just a quicky, Primus charge a 4p setup fee for each call and BT charge ~9.7p. Is it not then better to use Primus for weekend local and national calls as opposed to the current S/S which uses CPS override to route through BT?

Cheers all,

Bob

anselld

ireneofunes wrote: »

Hi guys,
First I'd like to thank Kevin for his excellent spreadsheet and Heinz for his updates!
Just a quicky, Primus charge a 4p setup fee for each call and BT charge ~9.7p. Is it not then better to use Primus for weekend local and national calls as opposed to the current S/S which uses CPS override to route through BT?
Cheers all,
Bob

Not if you are on the free weekend calling plan (calls are free through BT)

jem16

ireneofunes wrote: »

Just a quicky, Primus charge a 4p setup fee for each call and BT charge ~9.7p. Is it not then better to use Primus for weekend local and national calls as opposed to the current S/S which uses CPS override to route through BT?

Cheers all,

Bob

The whole idea of the CPS override back onto BT at the weekend is becasue weekend calls are free with BT and allow you to make the necessary calls (2 per month) with BT to keep Caller Display free.

ireneofunes

Ah, I hadn't realised that BT don't charge a setup fee for those calls.Thanks guys!

Victor_Delta

anselld wrote: »

Just another thought ....

How reliable is the V4 in maintaining time. I understand if it loses power from the line it will lose the clock settings, but how frequently is this likely to happen?

I have a Linux server running 24/7 is it worth the effort of scripting it to resend the time every night at say 3am? Or is that overkill?

Thx

Sadly there's never been an easy way to tell what time a V4 box thinks it is. Mine definitely drifts off over time and so I now reset the time manually every six weeks or so.

V

Speedee

Victor_Delta wrote: »

Sadly there's never been an easy way to tell what time a V4 box thinks it is. Mine definitely drifts off over time and so I now reset the time manually every six weeks or so.

V

I only do ours at the GMT/BST times every 6 months! Thanks for the tip :eek:

davidm_uk

Speedee wrote: »

I only do ours at the GMT/BST times every 6 months! Thanks for the tip :eek:

I've got the V4 box with the mains PSU adaptor but over the last year or so it has stopped working properly a few times (refusing to connect at all), and resetting the clock has cleared it.

rogerb

Anyone else had this?
Using the spreadsheet version 1.85 on a laptop to drive the internal modem, the process comes to a halt after dialling about 20 code sequences. The spreadsheet still shows dialling progress but the modem ceases to respond to the spreadsheet (although it will respond OK to a modem query in Control Panel). Only a laptop re-root re-enables it from the spreadsheet.
I've tried this on two different laptops now, with the same type of results, i.e. the spreadhseet stops communicating with the modem.
Using Office/Excel2007 with macros enabled, one laptop Windows7, the other XP.
An older version of the spreadsheet (1.4?) worked OK, although I haven't retried that older version.
Be interested in other's experiences.

KevinLawry

Retry the older version - if it works I will examine the changes and see if I can see what is going on

gsc

hi Kevin,
hope you can help.... tried both old and new sheets, and both internal and external modems and changing com ports to various numbers and I always get 'unable to open communication port COMxx' when I try to dial test number or anything else.
Anything you can think of that i need to look at?
thanks in advance