Caller ID Hardware Installation

Phone Line and PC Installation

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Telephone Line Installation

A Identifier is easily similar to the way a fax machine is most commonly wired,
directly to the Telco wiring as it enters the building.

Do NOT connect to an internal telephone extension of a phone system.
See Business Phone System Installation Below

Wiring an Existing Phone to the Identifier

Installation is as easy as adding a telephone line splitter to the back
of the phone and then adding a additional wire to the Identifier.
This applies to a plain old telephone, NOT a phone system extension.

Two Line Telephone Installation Demo This Flash Demo show the wiring of a 2 line phone to the Identifier.
This method would apply to other telephones and systems as well.

Audio On is recommended

What You Need to Know

RJ-12 Plugs vs. RJ-14 Plugs

These are the Standard Modular Plugs
that are used on all plain old telephones.

An RJ-12 Plug has 2 conductors, an RJ-14 has 4 conductors

The Red and Green pair are line 1, the Black and Yellow line 2.

The preferred method is to use dual line modular plugs (RJ-14) with 2 phone lines per wire.

The Identifier can be wired with two phone lines per wire with RJ-14 wires.

The Identifier connects the second line on the standard modular wire (RJ-14) to the next even number phone line port.

This is the preferred wiring method.

The alternate method is using an RJ-12 plug for every phone line with one phone line per port.

The rear panel of the Identifier RJ-14 modular telephone jacks. The telephone lines to be monitored are connected to these modular jacks. The telephone lines are always connected at the point in which they come into the building. If the telephone lines are used by a telephone system or go to POTs (Plain Old Telephones) the Identifier is connected in parallel (Tee Connection) with the telephone company lines.

Standard duplex modular adapters and couplers can ease your installation.

The two can be joined together to form a "Tee" in the phone line.

A duplex jack can be plugged into the wall plate to create the "Tee"

Medium Sized Business Phone Systems

Standard RJ-21 Connectors are used on
many medium sized business phone systems

If your phone system gets its telephone company feed from a connector like this:

CLICK THE IMAGE For more details.

Connection to the PC

It is recommended that the Identifier be located near the computer and connected using the cable which came with the unit. The Telephone Company's Telephone Lines should be run to the Desktop where the Identifier is installed.

Telephone wires are made to be run long distances. Serial cables are not. It is just as easy to run telephone wires as data cables. It is not necessary to locate the Identifier near the phone room.

The Identifier has a female DB-9 connector on the rear panel labeled "PC". A computer's serial port will have a male DB-9 or in rare cases a DB-25 connector.

The Identifier serial cable is plugged into the serial port typically on the rear of the PC. The serial port is the connector on the left. It has 2 rows of pins, 1 row with 5 pins and 1 row of 4 pins.

DB-9 PC Serial Port Connector (magnified)

The cable that runs between the Computer and the Identifier will have a male DB-9 on one end for the Identifier and a female DB-9 the other end for the computer.

This cable must be wired as a standard PC serial extension (straight through) cable.

If it is going to be used with a PC it is necessary to know what a COMM PORT is and which of the computer's serial connectors belongs to which COMM PORT.

If you will be using software supplied from YES Software, Inc., the software can use ports COM1 through COM9.

If the preceding is not perfectly clear, you may need to hire a local computer professional to assist you with the computer installation.

Attaching the Identifier to the Computer

1. Plug the male end of the DB-9 cable into the female DB-9 "PC" connector on the rear panel of the Identifier.

2. Plug the female end of the DB-9 cable into the male DB-9 serial port connector on the computer.

3. The computer serial port must be set to 4800 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity. This is done by your software program.

4. If you are connecting more than one Identifier, a male to female DB-9 cable is needed. Plug the male DB-9 cable into the female DB-9 "PC" connector on the rear panel of the next Identifier. Plug the other end of the cable (female DB-9 connector) into the "EXP" male DB-9 connector of the existing Identifier. Repeat this procedure for additional Identifiers.

If your PC has a 25 pin serial port connector you can use a 9 pin Male to 25 pin Female converter.

Identifier Communications "PC" Port

The "PC" port is an RS-232 serial communications port. It operates at 4800 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity. It is bi-directional (full duplex) and uses hardware flow control. When connected to an IBM PC Comm Port it requires only a standard DB-9 straight through serial extension cable (supplied).

"PC" Port DB-9 Pinout

The signal and description are for the PC's connector.
e.g. The Identifier transmits data to the PC's RD Receive Data pin.

Pin	Signal	Description	Direction
1	DCD	Data Carrier Detect	To PC
2	RD	Receive Data	To PC
3	TD	Transmit Data	From PC
4	DTR	Data Terminal Ready	From PC
5	GND	Signal Ground	Common
6	DSR	Data Set Ready	To PC
7	RTS	Request to Send	From PC
8	CTS	Clear to Send	To PC
9	RI	Ring Indicator	To PC

Diagnostics

Click on "Diagnostics"

USB Serial Cable

If, and only if, your PC does not have an available DB-9 serial port you can add a USB cable.

When ever possible, use a Serial Port rather than a USB port.

USB devices all require a Windows Driver. The serial port does not. Serial ports are very reliable and are technically superior to a USB port. the USB is needed for high speed communications. That is not the case with the Identifier.

Click on the image for more info on the USB cable: USB Cable

Printer Installation

While not very common, Identifier may be connected directly to a printer. It makes more sense to connect the Identifier to a PC. You will be able to print the list of calls and at the same time have many other features. Our software uses very little of the computer's.

The printer must have a serial port interface or you must use a device that converts a serial port to a printer port.

The printer or converter must be set to 4800 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop, and no parity. The serial printer cable must be connected to the female DB-9 "PC" connector on the rear panel of the Identifier.

When the Identifier is powered on it must receive a call with a Caller ID signal to initialize its internal clock and calendar (month and day only). On power up, the Identifier will send one line of information which includes the model number and version.

Install New Upgrade EPROM

This link is only needed in a very rare case when directed by technical support.
The pictures are still kind of cool looking if you want to peek.