Orchid V4, V4+ Programing Tool Support

shilcor

Heinz wrote: »

Using shilcor's example but substituting 'real' numbers to make it easier to understand, the below are the 2 sequences you would key if you wanted the Orchid to Translate the dialling of 123 into 02070431320 (IF you were sure Carrier 8 and Routing 97 were vacant):

*#**02070431320*8 (to create the new Carrier 8 for the Translate instruction to dial) and then

*###123#5888#97# (to create the new Translate instruction/Routing).

I think we've both interpreted what you want to do slightly differently. I assumed that when you dialed a particular phone number you wanted it to route via a particular carrier so you would want to add a carrier preselect prefix number in front of it to do the routing. The example Heinz gives uses translate and will actually dial 02070431320 when you dial simply 123, in other words, translate 123 into 02070431320 for you. As he says, what exactly do you want to do?

digital

shilcor wrote: »

I think we've both interpreted what you want to do slightly differently. I assumed that when you dialed a particular phone number you wanted it to route via a particular carrier

Yes, you've got it, that's what I want to do.

I'm signed up to Plusnet's Homephone product which offers free phone calls between all Plusnet Homephone users. Both daughters are on Plusnet Homephone too, so I want to be able to ensure that calls to them are routed through Plusnet and not using the 1899 routing I set up for all geographic numbers when I was with BT and which remains in place.

quorn99

Hi

Just hoping for a little help. I have a V4 orchid and was just wondering if it is able to actually block certain numbers i receive. By this i mean a certain number/s, not just those that withold their. ie some way of screening calls.

If so could anyone recommend how its done as my line provider (primus) cannot do it.

Quentin

Orchid no use for this function.

quorn99

Do you know the cheapest item that can do such a thing?

blanik

quorn99 wrote: »

Do you know the cheapest item that can do such a thing?

I remember one on Dragons den. It has a white list of firend and family numbers that get through, a black list of numbers blocked, and any other numbers get a automated 'who are you? message.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002GP7HQM?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&!!!!!asseeon-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B002GP7HQM

Heinz

digital wrote: »

Yes, you've got it, that's what I want to do.

I'm signed up to Plusnet's Homephone product which offers free phone calls between all Plusnet Homephone users. Both daughters are on Plusnet Homephone too, so I want to be able to ensure that calls to them are routed through Plusnet and not using the 1899 routing I set up for all geographic numbers when I was with BT and which remains in place.

The easy way would be just to dial a 121 prefix to override the Orchid for those numbers but it certainly would be possible to program in a couple of Routing Rules to ensure those particular numbers always go via Carrier 0 (your default carrier).

When I fire up my desktop, I post the programming strings.

EDIT 08:44 - thanks shilcor, your 8:27AM post saved me the bother.

shilcor

digital wrote: »

Yes, you've got it, that's what I want to do.

I'm signed up to Plusnet's Homephone product which offers free phone calls between all Plusnet Homephone users. Both daughters are on Plusnet Homephone too, so I want to be able to ensure that calls to them are routed through Plusnet and not using the 1899 routing I set up for all geographic numbers when I was with BT and which remains in place.

In that case, you just want to disable any routing for those two phone numbers so the following should do it. I've used a couple of dummy numbers in the following examples and routing code table locations 90 and 91 which are probably currently unused.

*###01256873645#3000#90#

*###01256863546#3000#91#

Breaking down the above in order to explain what the various bits of the character string do:-

*### write a routing code table entry
01256873645 the dialed number (or part of it) to be handled
#3 category of call - Allowed
0 daytime carrier code table entry to use (0=none)
0 evening carrier code table entry to use (0=none)
0 weekend carrier code table entry to use (0=none)
#90# write this into routing code table location 90

As Heinz has previously said, to do any serious updates, you need to know what your current tables contain but unfortunately, there's no way I know of to read the current configuration, only write new entries. When Orchid stopped remote support via their server I contacted them and they sent me a spreadsheet containing my current config so I knew what I had. Since then I've wiped it all out and started from scratch programming it using my phone keypad (I use OpenOffice and don't have EXCEL so can't use the spreadsheet/modem programming method). I keep my own record of the configuration in a similar simple spreadsheet for reference.
Hope the above helps.

digital

Thanks for the detailed answer and the explanation of what each section does! Two numbers programmed in now, the next bill will reveal if I got it right!

digital

Just to add to the above. How do I add the two entries into Kevin's spreadsheet (the file name says v1_9 though the header on the Main sheet says v1.8.5)?