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No special card need for digital or SLT ports will work with either. CID won't pass through to SLT's except on the latest versions. I'm pretty sure you need the correct module for caller ID period on the older systems need an E or EC on the end of the card number. Most of the phones on your link weren't display phones so again no CID.

no special cad needed for SLT(single line telephones ) you can plug one in instead of a system phone or you can plug one into the AUX jack on the bottom of the phones (they would both share the same extension number and couldn't be used independently )

I know the older Partners didn't pass CID (caller ID ) info to SLT's I'm not sure about release 8

Also you'll need homeruns on all your wiring, the digital phones take two pair.

By AUX port you mean like the Data Port plug on a hotel courtesy phone? I'm sure Mom would give me a hard time if we couldn't get CID since we do pay for it... Would it cause problems to connect the cordless phone system to our home line before the system is, so that way Mom could have cID and I could have my system in place? This way I don't need two phones next to each other.

On another note, do Avaya phones use RJ11 on the system cards for connections? This is a must because I know Dad would definitely not approve of removing and replacing the existing jacks with an oddball plug that can only be used for system phones.

Thanks everyone!

Oops, looks like justbill and I posted at about the same time about the same thing. Justbill, I am not quite sure I understand what you mean by "homeruns on my wiring." Do you think you could clarify that for me?

Thanks!

Homeruns are each phone has its own cable running back to the KSU. You need to learn a lot more before you are ready for a system but if you insist in getting something for your home then the Lynx system that JordonJ mentioned fits your needs and budget.

This would be an example of the Partner ACS processor that passes caller ID to single line telephones.

My thought would be to take a step back, decide on a particular system, gather as much information on the system as you can, read up on it (including required station wiring), write a coarse program for it, purchase the hardware and let 'er rip.

It wasn't unusual for Bell System technicians to daisy-chain telephone jacks together in homes....so you'll need to inspect the jacks & wiring to see if that is the situation in your house. If that is what you find, it will impact how you hook-up the system phones.

Add to the end of my post above the words "if you go with a Partner ACS and system phones".

The wiring in our attic is pretty simple. The wiring to the jacks is CAT5 and the white/blue blue/white pairs are used for tip and ring. All of the wires going to the different jacks around the house are connected at the same spot, and the incoming line cord from the NID is cut on the end, and the T wire is wrapped around all of the T wires for all of the jacks, and the R wire is wrapped around all of the R wires for all of the jacks. The wires are then covered by separate little rubber 'mittens'.

All I would have to do would to do is:
- figure out which cord goes to each jack
- label the port (ext.) the cord will be connected to
- put crimp RJ11 plugs on each of the wires from the jacks
- plug them into the system
- plug in the sets and set up the system

Is it OK (no harm to the system) to leave one of the jacks in the house connected directly to the home line so that Mom can have cordless phone, and not need to dial an access code (I know about automatic line selection, but it would probably be a little less complicated this way) to access the home line to make a call.

I could always just run the T and R from the system on the normal red and green pairs and take the direct line from the outside and send it in on the black and yellow pairs, and then splitting the wire and sending the normal T and R to the cordless system and the yellow and black T and R directly from the NID to a cID device.

Sorry if my explanation was a little confusing, but it's the best one I could put into words without physically showing!

About the Lynx system: I haven't been able to find really any information on these systems at all, so unfortunately I will have to cross that one of the list. Regardless, thank you for the suggestion.