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Vonage I finally got Vonage to work with Brinks, at least for now.
For the past several
I finally got Vonage to work with Brinks, at least for now.
For the past several weeks the Brinks control panel has been flashing an error message, "CR Trouble call 1800...."). And once a day it would start beeping. I have been reluctant to call Brinks to send out a tech because I don't want to spend $45 and I felt this might be a recurring problem. Plus the system was working fine, I called them the first day I noticed it and they told me it should go away within 24 hours and that it is still operational (and to call them if it still showed problems after 24 hrs). I ended up going away for the holidays and couldn't deal with it. I got home, it was still flashing the error message. Again, I didn't want to call Brinks and wanted to see if I could figure this out on my own, even if it meant getting a traditional land line (POTS). Apparently the Brinks system has been trying to dial in the the Brinks "mother ship" to download/update information. Keep in mind, my test calls ALWAYS went through.
Well, the error message went away today! The call/download finally succeded!
You can read more info about my success with Tivo dialing out in this thread. A lot of it pertains to this experience with Brinks: http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic2283.html
Here's the details of how I got it working (i was not expecting it, I just noticed the panel didn't beep at all today and the error message was gone)
You'll notice in the Tivo thread I mention I was going to move the Vonage back to an output on the router to see if the Tivo works in that setup. Well it so happened right about the time I went to move the Vonage box Brinks decided to dial out. As soon as the Vonage box was rebooted and hooked into the last port (4) of my d-link router, the call went through in full.
Here's what made it work for me:
-fresh reboot of router, cable modem, and Vonage box
-packet size reduced to .10 (see tivo thread, i had called Vonage to do this)
-Vonage box plugged into the last port of the router
If you want to try this and want to time it like i did (again, i didn't do it on purpose, it was pure coincidence - but maybe that's what helped it go through), I did decode the dialing sequence of the alarm system. I determined Brinks tried 4 calls every 4 hours by checking my Vonage activity (you can check yours to see if the sequence is similar).
For example, it would try at 3:21am, 3:23am, 3:25am, and 3:27am. Then it would try at 7:27am, 7:29am, 7:31am, and 7:33am... then 11:33am, 11:35am, 11:37am, and 11:39am, and so on. It was always the same sequence, every day.
I had not planned it, but it worked. The call that went through was 3 minutes, so it stayed connected at least that long to download the necessary data.
Hope this helps anybody who might be having this problem.
Read The Full Thread: Vonage + Brinks - Success! (finally)
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captenblack posted "I finally got Vonage to work with Brinks, at least for now.
For the past several" on 01/10/2005 |
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