Beotalk 1200

Hello

I wonder if you can help me with this question.  I am awaiting receipt of this answer machine and am thinking about how to connect it.  My set up is a Beocom 6000 basestation running to the 3 way splitter, then into an ADSL filter, then into the phone point in the wall (not the primary socket).  My router is also connected to the ADSL filter.

How do I connect up the Beotalk - can I just plug it in to another phone socket in the house, or must it be connected to the same phone socket being used by the Beocom 6000 basestation?  If the latter, then the ADSL filter has only 2 holes (one for the router and the other being used by the basestation) so i will need to split the filter's phone hole into 2.  Does that sound about right?

many thanks   

 

steve

The Beotalk must be connected to the primary incoming phone socket.

You can use another splitter and/ extension if the ADSL filter does not give enough space to get the special Beotalk splitter into place. Search the archived forum for more details.

Graham

Hi,

Our house has 6 phone points and the Beotalk has been connected to a number of points over the years and has worked fine. I think as long as it has an ADSL filter on it it will be fine whenever you put it.

We don't have the phone attached to it either - it is on a separate point.

Peter

The Beotalk 1200 is a standalone answer machine which can be plugged into any analogue phone extension and will work and you don't even need a phone on the line for it to work.

The only area where you may have a problem is with Caller ID when the extension socket has a very long cable length or the extension cable is of very poor quaity from the primary (Master) socket .

Keith Saunders:

The Beotalk 1200 is a standalone answer machine which can be plugged into any analogue phone extension and will work and you don't even need a phone on the line for it to work.

The only area where you may have a problem is with Caller ID when the extension socket has a very long cable length or the extension cable is of very poor quaity from the primary (Master) socket .

 

The user manual is also on line, but you will need to upgrade to access it.

My own experience is that if the Beotalk is not in the primary socket and you have DECT type cordless phones, the Beotalk may not recognise that you have answered the call and could cut-in regardless. As Keith suggests, the distance between primary and secondary sockets may be a factor; maybe a case of trying out your preferred location for the Beotalk and seeing whether everything functions correctly or not!

In my case I have a Jacob Jensen phone hard wired alongside the Beotalk, and DECT phones working from a secondary socket. The DECT phones were also Jensen, but we're replaced due to low volume and callers complaining that we could not be heard.

 

Graham

Thanks for the replies.  i will let you know how i get on when it arrives.

many thanks

OK I received the machine.  It did not work at first - it lit up and I could record a message, but it did not respond to a call.  I swapped the cable that leads from the 3 way adapter to the BT socket in the wall with one I use for my Beocom 6000, and it worked.

So it looks like the line cable from the adapter to the BT socket is either faulty or not the right one.  Looking at the end of that faulty/incorrect cable which plugs into the adapter, I can see 2 coloured wires, one yellow and one blue - both are side by side in the centre.  The cable from my beocom 6000 (and which works on the Beotalk) has more coloured wires.

I have tried a couple of phone extension leads I have around, but none work.  Are the correct ones only available from B&O, or is there a cheaper way for me to fix this?

By the way, the Beotalk is great - good loud sound.

Many thanks

Steve 

Just to add some more - I have been onto Ebay and see there are several RJ11 to BT leads - 4 pin straight, 4 pin crossover, 2 pin straight, 2 pin crossover etc.  Does anyone know which one might work?

 

many thanks

 

steve

devonjem:

Just to add some more - I have been onto Ebay and see there are several RJ11 to BT leads - 4 pin straight, 4 pin crossover, 2 pin straight, 2 pin crossover etc.  Does anyone know which one might work?

 

many thanks

 

steve

There used to be diagrams with this archived post but they have disappeared.

Also, despite Keith's note above, he does say on the old forum that the Beotalk may not work on a secondary socket (read down this thread).

Graham

I think you are looking for the diagram I created some years ago for the Beocom 6000 which

The following is the physcial connector