• CallerID Remote™ allows any Macintosh user, with a SupraModem capable of callerID reception, to maintain a database of incoming calls, displayed with the caller's name, phone number, time of call, and date of call.
In addition, CIDR allows a pager user to have some or all callerID data transmitted to his or her pager. Users of alphanumeric pagers can receive name, phone number, date and time of call to the alpha pager. Text messages can also be transmitted to any alphanumeric pager using the Motorola TAP protocol.
• WHAT YOU NEED
2 megs (or more) of available RAM
SupraModem (any model that has the CallerID feature)
CallerID service provided by your phone company (enhanced callerID recommended where available)
• A PowerPC version of CIDR is available at my Web site
<http://www.nashville.net/~bskate>
• OPTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Numeric or alphanumeric digital pager
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are using an alphanumeric pager (a pager able to display text messages), you must be using the Motorola TAP protocol for text messaging. To find out what protocol you are using, contact your pager service provider; if your pager is a Motorola brand, you are probably using the TAP protocol.
IMPORTANT: Please read this file in its entirety before trying to use CIDR.
• HOW TO USE
CallerID Remote is simple to use.
Your modem MUST be plugged into the modem port to use this program.
Run the application. If your modem is connected to your phone line, and plugged into the modem port of your Mac, you will start receiving callerID data.
• USING PAGER NOTIFICATION
1. Select PREFERENCES from the SETUP menu.
2. Select either numeric or alphanumeric pager.
3. Enter your pager number, followed by 3 commas (these add pauses before data is sent; add or remove commas until the page works properly).
4. Enter your local area code.
5. Enter the length of time (in seconds) that you want the program to wait before sending you the callerID data. This will depend on whether you use a phone machine or not, and should be set so that the page isn’t sent until a message would have been completed and the phone line would be free.
6. Enter the number of rings that will cause a page to be sent. If you are home, for example, you won’t want to be paged if you pick the phone up within 2 rings. I normally set my computer to send pages if the phone rings 3 times (this value must be at least 2, since your phone has to ring twice for callerID data to be transmitted. CallerID data is transmitted between the 1st and 2nd rings of your phone.
FOR NUMERIC PAGERS:
• Enter an Owner Code which will let you know that the page you received came from your computer, and not directly from a caller. This is optional
• Check whether you want to see Owner Code or Time of Call.
FOR ALPHANUMERIC PAGERS:
• You must be using the Motorola TAP protocol for text messaging, in order for this feature to work (I will be adding other protocols later, if demand warrants).
• You need the access phone number in order to send text messages. In essence, you will be connecting to another computer, sending a short “email” message, and hanging up.
Contact your paging company, and explain that you have software for sending text messages. Obtain the telephone number for sending these messages.
• Enter this access # in the field COMPUTER NUMBER.
•TESTING YOUR SETTINGS
You can test your settings using TEST PAGER. This will cause your Owner Code, if you entered one, to be sent to your pager.
You can test the alphanumeric paging settings by sending yourself a text message. Select SEND TEXT MESSAGE TO ALPHA PAGER from the DO menu, and enter a short message.
• KNOWN CONFLICTS
This version of CIDR will not send alphanumeric pages when After Dark is in screensave mode. When using CIDR, either turn After Dark off, or put the cursor in the NEVER SLEEP corner of your monitor.
• TROUBLESHOOTING
You can view alphanumeric progress by opening the Terminal window in the DO menu. This will show you what is transpiring (what the computer is sending you, what responses it is making to CIDR). If you can’t make this program work, make a note of what you see in this window, and send it to me via email:
Bob Patin <bskate@nashville.net>
• TO GET NEWER VERSIONS
If you have access to the World-Wide Web, visit my Web page at:
http://www.nashville.net/~bskate
• SHAREWARE
This program is shareware, and will become non-functional after 30 days of use. To register your copy, please send $10 to the address at the top of this file. Registering your copy will assure you that future copies of CIDR will be available to you, and that I continue to post the newer versions on networks.
