Remote control access, Call screening, Telephone answering machine (tam) – Philips ID937 User Manual
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Telephone Answering Machine (TAM)
Remote control access
This feature lets you check your messages, or otherwise operate your answering machine, by calling the
answering machine and entering a remote access code (which is the same as your Master PIN code) on a tone
dialling phone. To prevent unauthorised access to your answering machine, your Master PIN code must be
changed (see page 42).
Activate/Deactivate remote access
1. Press
m
MENU
, scroll
:
to
Answer Machine
and press
m
SELECT
, scroll
:
to
Ans. Settings
and
press
m
SELECT
, scroll
:
to
Remote access
and press
m
SELECT
.
2. The current selected option is highlighted.
3. Scroll
:
to
Activated
or
Deactivated
and press
m
SELECT
to confirm.
Controlling the answering machine from an external call
1. From your external phone, dial home. The answering machine answers and starts playing your greeting
message. Within 8 seconds, press # key.
2. Enter the remote access code (same as your Master PIN code). If the code is not correct, an error tone
will be emitted. After the error tone is emitted, you can try to press the remote access code again until you
enter the correct number.
3. If the access code is correct, a validation tone can be heard. If there are new messages, all the new
messages will be played immediately and then stop when there are no more new messages.
If there are no new messages, the answering machine will not play any messages.
The following table indicates how to access the below features during remote access procedure:
Call screening
Handset call screening
If Handset Call screening is set to
On
, you may press
v
to switch between the loudspeaker and earpiece
mode. If you decide to pick up the call, press
r
. Once the call has been picked up, the recording will stop
automatically. If you press
e
, the call will be cut off and the recording will be ignored.
1
Replay current message or go to previous message.
2
Play old messages or stop them.
3
Go to next message.
4
Delete current message.
0
Turn the answering machine on/off.
Remote access code is to prevent unauthorised access of the answering machine from external callers.
The remote access code is the same as the Master PIN of the phone. Your Master PIN code must be
changed (see page 42) before you can access this feature.
The answer machine will drop the line immediately if there is no detection of the master PIN entry within
8 seconds.
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