Delay Ringing Time

[BrentEaston]

I set a couple of phones to "delay ring" which does work. The phones will now delay after the second ring, before they start ringing. However, I want to change that to be longer (at least 4 rings). How would I go about doing that?

Thanks.

 

[jlshelton]

You don't say what system you are running; there are differences. On the Magix, there are several options, as described in Ringing Options in your manual. The description follows:


Delay Ring. Provides a delay before the telephone rings. The length of the delay depends on
the type of button and the coverage arrangement:
— On outside line, SA (including Shared SA), and ICOM buttons programmed for Delay
Ring, the delay is fixed at two rings and cannot be changed.
— System Managers customize coverage delays on an extension-by-extension basis. The
Coverage Delay Interval and Delay Ring Interval system-wide settings are replaced by
these extension timers: Primary Cover Ring Delay and Secondary Cover Ring Delay
(range 1–6 rings, factory setting 2 rings).
— The Group Coverage Ring Delay (range 1–9 rings, factory setting 3 rings) is set for each
sender’s extension. When a sender has both Individual and Group Coverage, the Primary
Cover Ring Delay controls the interaction between the two types of coverage.


What kind of Merlin are you running?

 

[BrentEaston]

I have a Legend 7.0 v14.2

sorry... I forget there are so many variations.

 

[jlshelton]

You may be out of luck. Legend 7.0 manual states:


Delay Ring. Provides a delay before the telephone rings. The length of the delay depends on the type of button and the coverage arrangement:
— On outside line, SA (including Shared SA), and ICOM buttons programmed for Delay Ring, the delay is fixed at two rings and cannot be changed.
— On Cover buttons programmed for Delay Ring in Release 4.0 and prior systems, the systemwide Delay Ring Interval, set through system programming, provides a delay of one to six rings with a factory setting of 2.
In Release 4.1 and later systems, system managers customize
coverage delays on an extension-by-extension basis. The Coverage
Delay Interval and Delay Ring Interval systemwide settings are replaced by these extension timers: Primary Cover Ring Delay and Secondary Cover Ring Delay (range 1–6 rings, factory setting 2 rings).
— In Release 4.1 and later systems, the Group Coverage Ring Delay (range 1–9 rings, factory setting 3 rings) is set for each sender’s extension. When a sender has both Individual and Group Coverage, the Primary Cover Ring Delay controls the interaction between the two types of coverage.


So, for normal line buttons, no change is possible.

 

[ArmyITGuy]

If you set your delay ring to on for all ports that should get you up to 4 rings.