Communication with PABX telephone system

[FuzMic]

Hi there

I am tinkering to build a Access mdb wherein it will communicate with a Pansonic PABX telephone system through a USB or Com port using the MSComm object. The objective here is to pick up the data coming from the PABX such as time of call, duration, destination number and costs of call plus sending out data to tell the various extension to ring at certain predetermined time in the mdb or data to bar the extension.

This being the first time i tinker into communication issues i am not sure if using the msComm is the right step. More importantly i am not sure what protocol the PABX will work on. My attempts to talk to Panasonic on this had not been too fruitful.

Any pointers from members of this forum will much appreciated.

 

[ripp3r]

More importantly i am not sure what protocol the PABX will work on. My attempts to talk to Panasonic on this had not been too fruitful.

Here's the point.

If I don't remember wrong... you have to use crs232 communication.

Maybe this can help you:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...ca-e4f1-4846-912c-b4ed37a1578b&DisplayLang=en

Anyway, I think it's really hard to work with PABX unless you have a list of proprieties / methods

If you are lucked enough you could SIMPLY (?) listen to the usb (com) port...

 

[FuzMic]

Thanks ripp3r for the pointer.