Call back activated!!

[owlbox]

This morning I got up and found I had no satellite reception. I went into the menus and found it had recently attempted a call back and failed. I manually started a call back which completed then rebooted my box. All the satellite channels are now back. Anyway it looks like the call back is turned on.

 

[andrzej]

What is this call back function for?

 

[Dreedy]

Could we be getting PPV's soon?


Wayne

 

[GeneWildershair]

What is this call back function for?

Well it sounds as if it's their way of keeping everyone "plugged in" via phone line.

 

[owlbox]

I'm sure they'll need it for PPV, but for now? When I was first installed it was on. When the s/w was updated it went away. Now the 800# is back and it definitely tried calling out a few days ago. I have one of those phone line auto switchers for fax etc. and Voom seems to have trouble dialing out with it. When I manually started it (the second time) it succeeded. It has a retry scheme built in so not sure why it didn't succeed on its own.

 

[barth2k]

Wait a sec, so if there's some trouble with the phone line, no TV for you? This is not good!

 

[babyj]

i just looked and there is a number in there now. but it does say "unsucessful" when it tried to call back on 5-16 at 7am.

 

[occammd]

Can we just drop our land-line and only connect to a phone when the unit dies every month when they try to confirm? I am just wondering if I can get the STB to dial out w/my cell phone and force a call when I see no TV.

Still lets me get rid of the land line.

 

[owlbox]

I'm not convinced that my not having sat this morning had anything to do with the call back. My box, like babyj's said the call back on 5-16 was unsucessful. But everything was working last night. More likely the wife was turbo surfing and locked something up.

 

[vurbano]

My box had a successful call back around 5am

 

[andrzej]

My box had a successful call back around 5am

I am optimistically assuming that they are testing it for PPV - coming soon to your Voom box.

 

[Ilya]

I'm not convinced that my not having sat this morning had anything to do with the call back.

I am not convinced either! I think it was a lockup or something. I would expect to see a special message if this was a deactivation due to a failed call-back...

 

[DarrellP]

Neither of my boxes are hooked to a phone line and they both have an unsuccessful callback. I'll see if I still have programming when I get home.

 

[astrossuperfan]

Can we just drop our land-line and only connect to a phone when the unit dies every month when they try to confirm? I am just wondering if I can get the STB to dial out w/my cell phone and force a call when I see no TV.

Still lets me get rid of the land line.

How do you hook up your box to your cell phone? It'd be nice to drop the landline.

 

[Ken F]

How do you hook up your box to your cell phone? It'd be nice to drop the landline.

Only some phones currently support this, and you typically have to define a certain string in call setup. These cell->landline adapters should be available for a lot more phones next year, once they ship in Bluetooth versions.

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see one cell->landline adapter. CellSocket is another cell->landline adapter available for select phones. These allow you to answer all your cell calls using standard landline phones throughout your house, but you must typically press a button on the landline phone to make an outgoing call using your cell line.

 

[n0qcu]

The other problem with that is most modems will not work over a digital cell so unless you can force you phone to analog it won't work.

 

[madpoet]

Cellsocket does not work. It requires special characters to be passed to dial, and Voom will not allow you to modify the dialout number.

That aside, I don't have mine hooked to a phone line either and they work just fine still.