Astra Venture User Guide

ENHANCED FEATURE ADAPTER

User Guide

Venture

Multiline Communications System

Introduction .....................................................1

Unpacking the EFA...........................................2

EFA ports .........................................................3

Connecting your EFA to your Venture System ...4

Verify that the EFA is connected to your system..................5

Adding a music source .....................................5

Connecting a music source.................................................... 5

Activating Music on hold......................................................5

Activating Background music...............................................6

Adding loudspeaker paging.............................6

Connecting a loudspeaker page amplifier.............................6

Activating loudspeaker paging..............................................6

Adding the Venture Door Phone.......................6

Connecting your Venture Door Phone.................................. 7

Activating your Venture Door Phone....................................7

Setting Door phone options...................................................7

Adding an electronic door latch........................8

Connecting your electronic door latch ..................................8

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Adding a fax machine or modem .................... 8

Connecting your fax machine or modem to your EFA..........9

Activating Fax switch............................................................9

Adding a Call Detail Recording ........................ 9

Connecting a computer..........................................................9

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Connecting a printer.............................................................10

Activating CDR ...................................................................10

Adding account code capabilities to CDR........ 11

Password protecting the EFA option settings.. 11

Using EFA functions ....................................... 11

Answering a door phone call ...............................................11

Turning Background music ON or OFF at each Venture phone
12

Using an account code while on a call.................................12

Loudspeaker paging.............................................................13

Saving Background music and Account code to a Memory key
13

Saving Door phone to a Memory key..................................13

Troubleshooting ............................................ 14

EFA options

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does not appear in the Services list...................14

You forgot your password...................................................14

Appendix.......................................................15

Running cable to the jacks ..................................................15

Terminating two lines on the EFA......................................16

EFA connection requirements............................................ 17

Canadian regulatory information...................19

U.S. regulatory information............................20

Index.............................................................25

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Introduction

Congratulations! Adding the
Enhanced Feature Adapter (EFA) to
your Venture system enables you to
connect seven devices: a music
source, an external page amplifier, a
door phone, a door locking/
unlocking device, a fax machine or
modem, and a printer or a PC.
Adding these devices to your
Venture system enables you to:

• provide music to callers who
have been put on hold

• play music though the handsfree
speaker of your phone

• page over a public address
system

• answer and open a door from a
phone in your Venture system

• use one line alternately for voice
calls, and for faxes or modem
transmissions

• accumulate and display Call
Detail Recording (CDR)
accounting information

This User guide explains how to
install the EFA, and to program and
use the EFA options.

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Note:

home or office that may be required
to install the devices connected to
your EFA should be done by
following the instructions that come
with each device. These instructions
are not covered in this

Guide

Any wiring of your

EFA User

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Unpacking the EFA

When you unpack the EFA you should have: one EFA, one telephone cord and one AC power adapter.

EFA

AC power adapter

telephone cord

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EFA ports

There are eight ports on the EFA:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Each port connects a different device to your Venture system:

1. a music source

2. an external paging amplifier

3. a door phone

4. a door locking/unlocking device

5. the phone line used as line 1 on your Venture phone or system, and if a fax or modem is attached, a second phone
line to be used for the fax

6. a fax machine or modem

7. a serial printer or a PC used as a Call Detail Recording output device

8. the AC power adapter provided with your EFA

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Connecting your EFA to
your Venture System

1. Plug one end of the 6-wire cord
provided with your EFA into a
phone jack on which the
telephone line, used as line 1 on
your Venture system, is
terminated.

Note:

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used with a fax machine or
modem, a second line to be used
for the fax or modem line must
also be terminated on this jack.
See “Terminating two lines on
the EFA” on page 16.

2. Plug the other end of the 6-wire
cord into the telephone port

on your EFA.

3. Plug the power adapter cord into

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the AC power port on your
EFA.

If the EFA will be

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line 1

telephone port

AC outlet

EFA

AC power port

4. Plug the power adapter into an
AC outlet.

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Verifying that the EFA is
connected to your system

1. Go to any Venture phone.

2. Press

3. Press ’ until your display

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shows

EFA options

display does not show EFA
options, see “Troubleshooting”
on page 14.

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. If your

Adding a music source

Adding a music source to your EFA
enables you to:

• provide music to calls on hold
for every telephone line
connected to your Venture
system

• play background music through
the handsfree speaker on idle
phones

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Note:

music source, applicable
copyright law may require that a

Depending on your

license be obtained for the right
to reproduce or transmit the
music source through the music
on hold or background music
features of this
telecommunications system.
Venture purchasers are solely
responsible for obtaining any
such license(s); in no event will
Northern Telecom or any of its
subsidiaries be liable for a
failure to obtain the required
licenses.

Connecting a music source

You will need a cable with a 3.5 mm
earphone jack on one end and
whatever is required to fit the output
of your music source on the other
end. Three typical types of
connectors are:

• for tape or CD players and tuners
— an RCA jack

• for amplifiers — a 3.5 mm
earphone jack

1. Plug the cable into the output
(line out) of your music source.

Note:

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cable into the loudspeaker
output of your music source. If
your music source has a separate
amplifier, use the auxiliary, line
out or headphone output jacks.

This could damage both
your EFA and the music
source.

2. Plug the other end of the cable
into the port on your EFA.

3. Turn on the music source.

Activating Music on hold

1. Go to any Venture phone.

2. Press

3. Press ’ until your display
shows

4. Press —.

Do

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EFA options

not plug the

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