Voice messages

[Vinod_Mathews]

Can I use Lookout to dial out through the modem and deliver voice
messages (pre-recorded) to a regular telephone line in case of certain
error conditions. Any ideas?

Vinod Mathews


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[Vinod_Mathews]

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[Scott Tsukuda]

I too wish that the feature you described was programmed into Lookout as an
object--or as a Fieldpoint module. Unfortunately, you can only do numeric
or alphanumeric pages. If you have a permanent connection to the Internet,
you have many more options.

If you only have a dial-up connection, one possible workaround is to send
your measured (and possibly processed) signals as outputs to a phone dialer
such as a Sensaphone 2000(no endorsement implied)- this is a "relatively"
inexpensive solution (~$1400-there are cheaper models available). The Sensaphone
does the dialout and can report analog values through the phone.

As an aside, in the case of alarm reporting, given the limited number of
input signals (8) on the Sensaphone, if you have many outputs to report via
voi
ce, you can consolidate them by reporting location or priority instead
of actual values.

Although, it is somewhat expensive and silly to buy analog outputs (digital
outputs are a cheaper alternative) just so you can feed them back into another
device (lots of A/D and D/A conversion), this should solve the problem.


Hope this helps,

Scott

[Anon]

Lookout is known to work with third-party telphone alarms systems like Win911
and ScadaAlarm. Please check the following links for more info':

http://www.specterinstruments.com
http://www.fluidsolutions.com/O/scadalarm1.html



"Scott Tsukuda" wrote:
>>I too wish that the feature you described was programmed into Lookout as
an object--or as a Fieldpoint module. Unfortunately, you can only do numeric
or alphanumeric pages. If you have a permanent connection to the Internet,
you have many more options.

If you only have a dial-up connection, one possible workaround is to send
your measured (and possibly processed) signals as outputs to a phone dialer>such
as a Sensaphone 2000(no endorsement implied)- this is a "relatively" inexpensive
solution (~$
1400-there are cheaper models available). The Sensaphone does
the dialout and can report analog values through the phone.

As an aside, in the case of alarm reporting, given the limited number of
input signals (8) on the Sensaphone, if you have many outputs to report via
voice, you can consolidate them by reporting location or priority instead
of actual values.

Although, it is somewhat expensive and silly to buy analog outputs (digital
outputs are a cheaper alternative) just so you can feed them back into another
device (lots of A/D and D/A conversion), this should solve the problem.


Hope this helps,

Scott