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Phone Base Station relay question
saint2e
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Kind of a weird situation i've got here, but my house has an alarm that is currently not connected to the outside world. It needs a phone line to do so. Previous owners had a hard land line from Bell Canada. I don't enjoy paying $40/month just to have a dialtone, so I have a VOIP service for my phone line at home. It's upstairs in the office, and connected to a Panasonic Wireless phone base station. I have other phones on each level.
Now, to get the alarm connected to the phone, I'm wondering if there is a way to connect to the Panasonic Base Station and "relay" (if that's the correct word) that signal to the alarm control panel (which is on the ground floor) via a normal phone cable or some other means.
I don't even know if such a thing exists, but I thought I would ask here.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Now, to get the alarm connected to the phone, I'm wondering if there is a way to connect to the Panasonic Base Station and "relay" (if that's the correct word) that signal to the alarm control panel (which is on the ground floor) via a normal phone cable or some other means.
I don't even know if such a thing exists, but I thought I would ask here.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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I ended up trying the instructions on this web site:
http://www.voipmyhouse.com/
But unfortunately couldn't get it to work. Essentially I went:
Phone relay -> Disconnected the jack plugging into the house to cut it off.
VOIP ATA -> Wall outlet X
Phone Base Station -> Wall outlet Y
Base station couldn't get a dial tone. So not sure what else needs to be done.