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You don't use a straight through cable.
You need to swap pins 2 and 3 at one end, 4 and 5 stay straight

Well, that's certainly useful information that I didn't have before. Does it matter which end has pins 2 and 3 swapped (edit: well, I suppose it wouldn't)? Is there a diagram posted anywhere?

Thanks!

On a 9 pin serial cable you only need pins 2-5, with 2 and 3 reversed at 1 end, and the others straight through.

I usually use a db9 female to rj45 female connector which lets me put the pins in whatever config I want, then put a cat 5 in between so I can have whatever length I need.

This is the type of connector I'm referring to.

Very helpful, thank you again.

With the documentation you have it sounds like it's European it's definitely not North American talking about DECT phones.And yes mmc 740,741 are for the voicemail here.

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Excellent observation. The documentation I was able to find is a 2001 programming manual from the UK. I am, in fact, located in the United States.

Thanks for all of your help -- this is a very friendly and helpful forum.

An update and hopefully the end of this thread. I was back out on site today and after talking to my friend who had asked me for help, I used the "Station Pair" function to make extension 209 the secondary station to 207. As such, if someone calls, or is transferred by the Auto Attendant or by another extension to 207 (the original and main phone for the restaurant), both 207 and 209 will ring, and if there's no answer then the caller can leave a message on 207. About the only thing this doesn't easily allow is the notification of and checking of new messages from 209, but they're fine with that -- 209 is at a desk not always staffed, 207 is the main phone used.

The bonus of this is that I didn't have to attempt to tweak the settings for the Auto Attendant, which obviously was set up by the original installer, and is not something I've ever worked on before.

For kicks, I did play around with setting up a button to check the 505 group voicemail box, just to see how to do it. The function was, as Gerrya mentioned above, "VG505".

Thanks to everyone who posted and messaged me with help on this -- you all are very friendly and helpful.

Pins 2 and 3 on the DB9 need to cross over. I am sure you could use a null modem adapter, but you only need pins 2,3,4 and 5. I build my own cables with DB9 to RJ45 hoods and a CAT5 patch cable.

By the way the method outlined above will not give you any message count on the display and the phone will have to have a MWXXX button and a VMMSG button if that extension wants to have it's own voicemail.

There are other ways to do it.............

Opps, looks like a was several post behind on this....

You could also put a MW207 on the 209 extension and then both could get into that mailbox and have some status.

Hi Todd,

Thanks for the idea. I looked into trying to do this when I was out there last, but I believe it was determined earlier in the thread that this older iDCS 16 system doesn't have the "MW" function. Looking through the documentation I have, that's not an option for key programming. I did try programming a VG207 button on x209, but it wasn't having it, presumably since 207 isn't a group.

Realistically I think we're good where it's at now -- I don't think people will frequently be calling this restaurant after-hours and leaving messages.