BT Diverse 5250 manual Remote access, To switch on your answering machine from another phone

BT Diverse 5250 ~ 5th Edition ~ 20th May ’03 ~ 5187

Remote access

You can operate your answering machine from any external TouchtoneTM phone by phoning your BT Diverse 5250 and entering your base station PIN.

Using this code prevents other people from accessing your answering machine functions without your permission.

IMPORTANT

You must change the base station PIN from the Original setting of 0000 for your remote access to function. See ‘To change the base station PIN’, page 37/38.

To switch on your answering machine from another phone

If you forget to switch your answering machine on, you can do it from another phone.

Dial your telephone number and let the phone ring for approximately 1 minute.

When you hear the announcement ‘Please enter PIN’. Enter the base PIN (must be changed from 0000).

The recording time left will be announced. Any messages are played back to you.

When you end the call, your answering machine will be switched on.

To access and play your answering machine messages from another phone

	Dial your telephone number.
	When you hear your outgoing
	message:
9WXYZ	Press the 9 button.
	Enter your base PIN.
	Your machine tells you
	whether you have any new
	messages. The messages are
	now played back.
	To control the answering machine
	functions during playback:
	To repeat the current message.
1	Press twice to skip back to
	previous message.
2ABC	To pause/resume playback.
3DEF	To skip forward to the next
	message.
	Press twice to skip to the
	following message.
0	To delete the current message.

REMOTE ACCESS

BT Diverse Helpline – 08457 908 070

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