Zoom Dialer 27 - Manual (Page 7)

Setting Up the Dialer 3
Setting Up the Dialer as a Hotline
If you do not want to program a hotline number but do want to restrict
access to toll numbers, see Setting Up the Dialer as a Toll Restrictor (page
9). Otherwise please read below about programming a hotline number and
trigger. If you want to, you can also set the dialer up as a Toll Restrictor after
you have programmed a hotline number.
Programming a Hotline Phone Number
This section tells you how to program the number you want the dialer to dial
when a trigger occurs.
To program a hotline phone number, do the following.
1. Take your phone off-hook
2. Press # 0 #
3. Enter the hotline phone number
4. Press # #
5. Listen for two confirmation beeps
6. Place your phone on-hook
If you wish, you can program a complicated hotline number, consisting of a
sequence of numbers separated by pauses and other items. See the section
Advanced Hotline Number Programming to learn how to do this.
Programming a Trigger
Before you can use your dialer, you will need to select the trigger that will tell
the dialer when to dial the hotline number you programmed.
The available triggers are:
• N seconds after coming off-hook, where N is from 1 to 9.
• Dial tone. This is good for situations where you want someone to be able
to dial without dialer involvement by dialing as soon as the dialer detects
dial tone after someone comes off-hook. The dialer detects dial tone
within about a tenth of a second. Please see the note below on how to
reprogram a dialer configured in this mode.
• Someone presses the first digit of the hotline phone number for a
long time (more than .6 seconds). This is good for situations where you
want someone to be able to dial normally most of the time, and to be able
to trigger the dialer by holding down the button of the first tone dialed.
This only works for phones that generate a tone during the whole time
you're pushing the button.
• On power-up After the dialer receives power, it electronically takes the
phone off-hook and then dials after it detects about a tenth of a second
of dial tone. This trigger is normally only recommended when the dialer
is embedded in an electronic system. Please see the note below on how to
reprogram a dialer configured in this mode.