WOM / modems ?

[RJK]

Does anyone know if and where I can buy a pci modem with a WOM pin header
(wake on modem ring) on it.
Many motherboards offer this feature but, there seems to be a TOTAL lack of
modems for sale out there with this hardware feature on it.

Thousands of data/fax/voice PCI modems don't have this feature, and
thousands of "phone recording" programs are out there but, the only do half
a job ! They use VOX and not "voltage detection" and simply cannot detect
when the phone is hung up, and they also demand that the PC is running 24/7

I've just ordered a KAED telephone call recorder, which uses voltage
detection and not VOX, and this has a USB or serial lead that can wake up
the PC but, we also need a data/fax/voice modem that can wake up the PC, or
bring it out of standby to record voice messages, to act as a telephone
answering machine and store faxes.

TIA

regards, Richard

 

[John Jay Smith]

Perhaps you are wrong...
I got a super cheap PCI modem and it had that feature...
it didnt say anything in the manual ... but it worked!

 

[RJK]

Despite major rummaging around the web, in the distant past, I could never
find a satisfactory solution. ...and I may be talking about WOM when I
should be talking about WOR,
or is that the same thing ? ...I dunno !

The cheap data/fax/voice modems, that attract hundreds of writers of
"telephone call recording software," that litter the web, all cannot do it
properly and automatically ! Therre is something lacking in the design and
hardware of these PCI modems that simply means they cannot detect when the
phone goes "on-hook." They can detect when it goes off-hook and start
recording but, they cannot detect an "on-hook" event. This I remember from
ages ago after countless hours scouring the web. And they also cannot wake
up the PC from standby or "off," ...unless I'm missing something somewhere.

We have two requirements, to record all telephone calls in the PC, and to
have the PC act as a telephone answer machine. I fiddled with a diamond
Supra express a few years ago, and that wouldn't do it. i.e. it couldn't
wake up the damned PC to take a telephone call.

Unless I've got my wires crossed somewhere, I have to have a modem, that has
a wire that connects a pin on the modem to the appropriate pin-header on the
motherboard.

I sort of suspect that a serial port event would wake up the PC, and the
KAED telephone recorder looks as though it's designed to do this, - I
ordered one! That may solve the fully automatic recording of telephone
calls, (and waking the PC), without all the problems associated with VOX
techniques.
http://www.kaed.com/hardware/pr_features.html
http://global.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/wom.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/wakeup.mspx

....confused, I am !

regards,

Richard

 

[Doug]

Hmmmm...SuperVoice is packed with a good many modems. It 'wakes'
up my computer every time and does what it is supposed to do.
Have used it for years.

Doug

 

[RJK]

"SuperVoice" cd's I've got here in abundance! I'll have another look at
one. I had an email from KAED to advise me that the on-hook and off-hook
voltage here in the UK, (and Sweden), is significantly different than most
of the rest of the world and their (voltage detection) phone recorder would
probably not work here in the UK. Their technician mentioned that it would
work on a VOX basis but, we bought one of those a few months ago from
http://www.retellrecorders.co.uk/ and were looking for something better -
without having to spend hundreds and hundreds of £'s on a PBX type pci card
with the features we need.

It's almost as though the cheap PCI modem manufacturers intentionally missed
out the on-hook even detection !

regards, Richard