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Aptiva - Wake up on Ring and Scheduler Information
Applicable to: United States
Wake Up on Ring is a Rapid Resume feature. When you enable it, the computer will turn on when the phone rings assuming you have the telephone line connected to the computer. If you have fax or fax/voice software open, the computer can receive faxes or messages after it turns on.
Scheduler, another Rapid Resume feature, allows you to schedule an event (a message or program) at a time you specify. If the computer is off at that time, it will turn on automatically and display the message or run the program. There is a nice Windows interface that allows you to set several options, including frequency (Once, Weekdays, Monthly, etc) and time. (You can even schedule the computer to turn itself on or off without an event.)
The Aptiva systems will answer the telephone from each of the following states:
power on
standby
suspend (Rapid Resume enabled, power off)
power off (Rapid Resume disabled)
For the first three, the telephone answering software (ex: Faxworks) must be running (when the system goes into that state) in order for the telephone to be answered. For the power off state (RR disabled), the system will turn on if wake-up-on-ring is enabled; however, to answer the phone, the Operating System's Start Group needs to be set up to run the answering software.
After the phone has been answered and the FAX or message received, the system will return to its previous state: If standby is enabled, the system enters standby after the time period set by the user (15-90 minutes.) If auto-power off is enabled, the system will power down after the time period set by the user (15-90 minutes.) If Rapid Resume is enabled when the system powers down, then the state will be saved and the system will go back to the suspend mode.
There are two ways to 'trigger' a wake-up-on-ring:
1) The internal modem passes a ring from the phone line to the system.
2) The ring indicate signal on Serial Port A (probably pin 9) is pulsed.
Scheduler works pretty much the same way except that it uses a feature called wake-up-on-alarm instead of on-ring.
As for interruption of power: The BIOS 'remembers' how the system was powered down-- If by the power switch, the
system will not turn on until the power switch is pressed again. If by a power strip or by removing the plug from the back
of the system, the system will turn on when power is restored to the system. Entering standby, suspend or power off after
interruption of power is set by the user as described above. Any time the power is removed from the system unit and then
restored, the system will turn on briefly. This will only be for a couple of seconds, and the way it can be observed is that
the fan on the power supply will spin for a few seconds. During this time, BIOS determines whether the system was on when
the power was removed and returns the system to that state. (ON or OFF)
Also, when power is removed from the system unit, the controller that handles waking-on-alarm is reset. This means
that when power is restored, the system doesn't know it is supposed to wake-up-on-alarm.
Scheduler uses the wake-up-on-alarm function, but the two are not quite the same thing. Scheduler will not 'forget' events
during a power outtage. But one or more events may be missed if the system loses power while it's turned off and a
wakeup-alarm has been set. Scheduler will not execute any 'missed' event if that event was to have occurred more
than 5 minutes before the current time.
The alarm is not intelligent. i.e. It is set by Scheduler or by the Configuration Utility. Scheduler or Configure must be used
to set the new alarm time for each event.
The modems that are shipped with the Aptiva systems have a special 2-pin connector that connects to the planar.
This connector is necessary for the wake-up-on-ring feature to work.
Aptiva has a feature that handles part of what you describe. It it called Standby Snapshot. The way it works is this:
When the system enters the Standby mode and Standby Snapshot is enabled, then the state of the system
(RAM, registers, etc) is saved to the hard disk. The system remains powered on, but if there is a power outtage, the
system will resume to the state it was in when it entered Standby.
The PS/1 systems do not contain the wake-up-on-ring modems. And PS/1 planars do not support this feature. It is
unique to Aptiva.
The wake-up-on-ring state is saved through a power outtage.
A clarification of what was stated earlier: The alarm controller is reset during a power outtage. However, when power is restored, BIOS will turn the alarm back on if the wake-up time has not yet passed. i.e. The alarm time is actually only forgotten when the system was to have woken up during the power outtage.
1) Each Aptiva model that comes with a modem supports wake-up-on-ring. You could say that all Aptiva modems
support this feature.
2) Each Aptiva model supports scheduler. This feature is independent of the modem.
3) The minimum needed to use as a voice answering machine is a voice modem and a voice telephony application. This oftware may be difficult to find because it is often customized for particular modems. Also, if you want the system to be able to wake-up to answer the phone, the voice modem will need to support wake-up-on-ring. If you want to be able to play back messages on your external speakers, you'll need a sound card and a cable to connect the modem to the sound card; otherwise, you can play back messages to your telephone and hear them over the handset.
The wake-up-on-alarm function that Scheduler uses is a feature of the Aptiva BIOS. It has an option (that you can set in the
configuration utility) to wake the system up Daily at a particular time.
Remember, the only time that the alarm is lost is if it was to have occurred while the power was out. Also, even though
today's alarm has been missed, if Daily event is set in configure, the system WILL wakeup tomorrow; this is because
when power comes back on BIOS resets the alarm controller if the current time is less than the wakeup time/date.
If wakeup time is set for Daily in configure, then current time is always less than the wakeup time/date.
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Power Management, Communications Software | |
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Date Created |
17-04-97 | |
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Last Updated |
17-12-98 | |
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Revision Date |
17-12-99 | |
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IBM Aptiva | |
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Aptiva, PS/1 | |
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