Orchid V4, V4+ and Ranger 400 phone users - Discussion

Heinz

**#0000*1111*6 clears the Routing Rules table completely;

**#0000*2222*6 clears the Carriers table completely;

In effect, that's a 'factory reset' without clearing your home STD code and your daytime/weekend time settings.

marsha11_2

I've manually programmed my V4 using a modem. Just create a new Dial-up Connection using the New Connection Wizard:
ISP: Orchid V4 Setup
Phone Number: V4 programming code
Username/Pwd: anything you like

Start the Dial-up connection
Using Heinz's programming codes or your own (see spreadsheet here) copy the required code and paste the code into the Dial box if different. Make sure you change the Wingdings2 * for a proper *
Press the Dial button
Press Cancel after you've heard the codes go through

Keep your spreadsheet up to date and copy cell / paste to Dial box as required. I've removed the Wingdings2 * symbols from my spreadsheet so that I don't have to edit the code in the Dial box (less chance of making a mistake).

tigerlily

My orchid dialler arrived today, so I will contact them tomorrow and ask to be put "on the heinz list".........wish me luck getting it up and running!!

will-in-estoril

Spiggle_Bum wrote: »

HI,

I've downloaded & read the programming guide & routing table..

So to implement the latest changes 'One final update to the program - 16 January 2009'.. without phoning home all I have to do is enter the following 2 programme codes ?

Ý # # # 0845 # 3 553 # 15 #
Ý # # # 0870 # 3 533 # 16 #

I hope i've got this right & if so then its alot easier to do then i first thought...

..and I presume the table they show is the latest 'Heinz' table prior to the above update ?

Well said. It really isn't all that difficult.
I have done the following:

1. Opened up the excel spreadsheet on the Orchid Telecom website.
2. Copied and pasted the Heinz programme on tab 2 (called 'MSE sample table') across to tab 1 (called 'my table').
3. As I use BT rather than Primus for evening and weekend calls I have substituted carrier code 3 with carrier code 0. (I suppose I could have left them alone, but wanted to get the hang of understanding the logic of the spreadsheet.)
4. In my case 0845/0870 numbers are now routed as follows on lines 15 and 16 respectively:

Ý # # # 0845 # 3 500 # 15 #
Ý # # # 0870 # 3 500 # 16 #

The daytime routing remains unchanged; however, evening and weekend calls now go via my default carrier, BT, which, as I understand it, is carrier 0.

If I am wrong please correct me!

tigerlily

Hi question for heinz......again!!

I am just programming my orchid dialler and I THINK I understand it...

I would like to have it set up so that local calls at the weekend go through BT as I get free E+W calls so would it be the case that I do as below?

current; *###*2*9#4103#01#

new; *###*2*9#4100#01#

By putting in a zero as a command will the call automatically go through with no routing intruction, I came to this conclusion as the instruction for 999 cals feature zeros in the time of day columns meaning in theory all calls would go directly through (in my case) BT?

So following this to change weekend mobile calls to gothrough 18185 I would insert "1" instead of the current "5"?

Thank you for your time.

Heinz

You're right but that should make no difference - Carrier 3 is 1280 (CPS Override) anyway (used to force a call via BT by those whose default calls provider is a CPS like Primus Saver) - so, as you don't have a CPS, the call is sent via BT with Carrier 3 or Carrier 0 (the 1280 prefix has no effect if your default calls provider is BT).

Again, you're right but you don't want to change the routing of your weekend calls to mobiles to '1' (the 18185 prefix). Carrier 5 is 08081703703##### (18185's freephone gateway number with 5 seconds of pauses added) - which gets 4p/minute calls to mobiles at weekends as opposed to 6p/minute via the 18185 prefix.

runciblespoon

Another suggestion for son-of-Orchid...

Voice over IP Analogue Telephone Adaptors (ATAs) are boxes much like routers, which take in a normal analogue phone. They have an ethernet socket (or in some cases wireless), intended so that the normal phone can be used to make internet calls. Prices start at about £20.

The interesting thing is that some have outbound analogue phone sockets too. The idea is that you can choose to route some calls over the internet (say international) and some over your analogue (BT etc) line (local calls and 999, say). But you don't have to route any calls over the internet if you don't want to.

On some you can do substitutions on dial strings (this is called the 'dialplan'). For example, you might be using a phone provider that expects all numbers in international format. So you can program it to recognise local numbers as starting 2-8 and add the prefix. So 567890 is sent to the phone company as 00441234567890. By setting various patterns, that would do the job of the Orchid dialler. Usually there's a web interface to program one of these boxes. It wouldn't be hard to write a program like CWClient to take the substitutions in a convenient format, which converts them into the dialplan format and then operates the web config interface automatically to make these settings.

One box that will do all of this and a lot more is the Linksys SPA3102 (about 40 pounds). Setting it up is a bit tricky, but there are some guides on the web. The only thing it won't do is differentiate by time of day or day of week. It's not really intended for this purpose, but it'll do such number substitutions just fine.

The advantage of using an ATA is you can send some calls over the internet too - just buy some credit at an internet calls provider and give the details to the ATA.

Like most routers, ATAs have a small computer inside. If someone manages to port Linux to one of these (I haven't checked all the models, but there's plenty of Linux ports to other routers), there's the possibility for someone to create an application for dialling, as flexible as you like. Many of these boxes have clocks inside, so there's no reason that someone can't add time/date functions to the dialplan.

RatAtAt

Heinz wrote: »

**#0000*1111*6 clears the Routing Rules table completely;

**#0000*2222*6 clears the Carriers table completely;

In effect, that's a 'factory reset' without clearing your home STD code and your daytime/weekend time settings.

To complete the picture, how does one alter the day/weekend time settings manually, and the home STD code (because I will be moving house in the summer, and my current 'day' setting is 6 a.m., for Primus/18185, but I may wish to alter that to 8 a.m. for BT/18185).

Heinz

RatAtAt wrote: »

To complete the picture, how does one alter the day/weekend time settings manually, and the home STD code (because I will be moving house in the summer, and my current 'day' setting is 6 a.m., for Primus/18185, but I may wish to alter that to 8 a.m. for BT/18185).

6am is the 'day' setting for BT (8am is for Primus) so you have that wrong now - but it'll be right when you move in 6 months.

Anyway, the STD code and weekday/weekend settings procedures are shown in the newly-posted (zip file) guide HERE.

digital

I'm trying to retrieve/update my routing details but am having trouble connecting to Orchid's server. Sometimes there's an unable to connect error, others it connects and I get as far as clicking to access the actual table but then the connection is dropped.

Anyone able to offer any advice?