I want to use my cFP-2020 to call a pager

[Dusty]

I have a cFP-2020 and need it to alert me by pager when an alarm condition is triggered. Does anyone know a good way to accomplish this?
Thanks
Dusty

[Matthew_Williams]

Simplest would probably be an email to a pager gateway. You'll need the
internet toolkit or you can roll your own with a tcp connection. Obviously
both require network access to a mail server.

Another approach would be to use a stand alone auto-dialler (i.e. Sensaphone)
triggered by a digital output on the cFP to call the pager # directly. Has
the advantage of working when the email server/network are down but is dependent
on a phone line (and possibly a pbx).

Matt

[Aaron_G]

In addition to the suggestions provided by Matt, you could attach an external modem to one of your serial ports. When the alarm case is triggered, you could activate the modem (using VISA), dial out to the pager number and send a numeric message. You would do this primarily using the old AT style command strings. I have done this before using an FP-20XX module.

Regards,
Aaron

[Matthew_Williams]

Of course! Thanks Aaron, I completely missed that approach.

Dusty - check my comment on the Internet Toolkit; I'm not certain
now that you need the toolkit to get the smtp function.

Matt

[Dusty]

Thanks for the help guys,
The only method I had thought to use was a serial modem. However I wanted some more options. I have not checked on the internet tool kit yet, but plan too. I think all three ideas are good and I will explore each a little more before I make a decision.