Does the CNXTA _have_ to answer the phone? A lot of the description points towards this interface answering the phone and offering remote control to callers.
I want this mainly to capture caller ID info, but not automatically answer. I also want to have the touchpanel user be able to dial out sort of like a speaker phone interface.
What I don't want is this thing picking up on every phone call unless it is comanded to do so.
TIA,
-Bill

You'd probably get a quicker answer to this at the crestron yahoo group. I haven't seen a whole lot of crestron Q&A here.

It does not ever have to pick up a call. You define that in software ( symbol definition ). It can call out but not answer or do both automatically or via end user choice. You can set the number of rings on which it can pick up. Fact is that if it does not have its own line auto answer may prove a problem as it is for answering machines and faxes. Caller ID info is available ( assuming it works in the first place ) without answering the call as the data is on the line and can be stripped off by the card. I'd rather not go into the entire megillah here but suffice it to say there are less expensive and more reliable options if all you want is caller ID displayed on a touch panel.

Dialing out is not problem. We have controlled gates this way for years and audio/video conferencing ( which we have not done ) has been successfully accomplished for years with the card. ( To be fair conferencing has been done via control of third party units but let us not get overly technical ). If you want the end user to manually use the card to answer the callnno problem. Make the off hook signal go high.

Alan