Orchid V4, V4+ Programing Tool Support

KevinLawry

Not entirely the case, the V4 can be programmed using just a touch tone 'phone and the instructions in the manual, the strings you need to dial are not very intuative however and the manual takes a bit of mental gymnastics to understand the first time you read it.

If you want my spreadsheet to do the work for you, you do indeed need Excel, and a modem to let it talk to the V4, however if you have no modem it also calculates the strings that you need to dial so that you can enter them by hand on a touch tone phone.

If you are on a budget (and that is why we are here after all) the spreadsheet will open in open office, which is a free office suite, and will calculate the strings for you to dial - sadly I have not yet managed to get it to auto dial from open office and I'm not sure I will ever be able to, but at least having it work out what you need to enter is a step in the right direction.

Ugo_2

My current routing table (Heinz's default) shows CPS overide (route 3) being used at weekends to route calls over BT. This is fine but I keep getting unavailable numbers - would a pause (#) help if this was added to carrier code 3 in the carrier code table?

Thanks

Heinz

Ugo wrote: »

My current routing table (Heinz's default) shows CPS overide (route 3) being used at weekends to route calls over BT. This is fine but I keep getting unavailable numbers - would a pause (#) help if this was added to carrier code 3 in the carrier code table?

That's the way mine is set up too (to ensure sufficient calls are made via BT to 'qualify' for free Caller Display) and I don't get that problem.

However, adding a pause shouldn't cause a problem.

Ugo_2

Heinz

Thanks. Can I just overwirte that carier code using Kevin's program or do I need to replace the whole carrier code table?

Heinz

Ugo wrote: »

Can I just overwirte that carier code using Kevin's program or do I need to replace the whole carrier code table?

Just overwrite Carrier Code 3.

csj_2

To Heinz, Kevin Ugo etc
I too would like to overwrite Carrier Code 3 and insert a pause but how exactly do I do this?
I see that the Excel cell contents in the Carrier Code Table for CPS override are written as:
=IF(B7="","","*#**" & B7 & "*" & A7)
Am I supposed to insert a pause into this line somewhere or have I got it totally wrong.

Heinz

Insert a # where you need the pause.

In fact, thinking about it, there's only one place you could insert it (after the zero).

*#**1280#*3

Correction. As Kevin advises in post 92 below, you'd insert the # in column B anyway - and it would automatically be copied into the appropriate position in column D.

But why you'd want to I cannot imagine.

markja_2

In the default V1.4.0 spreadsheet...

I don't understand why routing code table #10 contains 1,1,5.

Isn't carrier 5 exactly the same as carrier 1 except via a specific no. for cable (non BT) customers.

To me this is saying one is a BT customer during the week and then somehow becoming a cable customer at weekends.
I am obviously missing something here. Help?

Tk,
Mark J

KevinLawry

Cell B7 is where you would make your change, leave the cells with formulas alone if you can, you will only save up trouble for later

set B7 to 1280# and the values will be calculated through - as to whether or not 1280# will help, I don't know but I suspect it will do no harm

Heinz

markja wrote: »

In the default V1.4.0 spreadsheet...

I don't understand why routing code table #10 contains 1,1,5.

Isn't carrier 5 exactly the same as carrier 1 except via a specific no. for cable (non BT) customers.

To me this is saying one is a BT customer during the week and then somehow becoming a cable customer at weekends.
I am obviously missing something here.

Yes, you are. It's just to route the calls via the cheapest route. Calls to mobiles using the 18185 prefix are 5p/minute at the weekend whereas, via their gateway numbers, they're 4p/minute (but I have no idea why that is).