BT has Switched AV "off"before sending DV equipment. Order still shows PENDING

[GARRY_AND_SUSIE]

@pddco 
> What’s in the loft? The hub or the DECT base station? 

The DECT base station - we put it up there to gain us cordless phone coverage into the garden & shed & hence reducing the hardwired extensions & external bell & REN requirements on our system.  

NB At that time we were being led to believe that the SH2 would only support a REN of 1 or 2 max so we re-cabled & redistributed all phones accordingly.

> That way anything that relied on the extension wiring for the landline (like your DECT base station) will continue as before.

Having looked into the "Smart Hub 2 - Power Supply and Ringing Current data" on the "bt-digital-voice.blogspot" site I think we would indeed have been absolutely fine doing something similar & we wouldn't have had to mess about with anything else.

[GARRY_AND_SUSIE]

@HHGTTG 

> Strangely and inexplicably the EE/BT shop indicates that the DV Adapter has been discontinued!! How does one explain that?

Maybe they took them all off sale ready to be send out to DV switchover customers & promptly lost or disposed of them 😄
Hopefully they can still find one for me.

[pddco]

@GARRY_AND_SUSIE 

You wrote “… NB At that time we were being led to believe that the SH2 would only support a REN of 1 or 2 max…”

I’m sure others will correct me, but I think nowadays REN ( Ring Equivalence Number) doesn’t have much bearing on how many modern phones ( or actually, how many bells) can be rung. It harps back to the proper mechanical bells that were in your standard GPO/PO/BT telephones with their 1000ohm or 4000ohm bell coils that needed a moderate current to operate them. Of course there may be some who still have them and a means to convert loop disconnect dial pulses to MultiFrequency tones.

But don’t think you need to worry in your case.. Unless of course you do actually have such proper phones :). 

[modenu]

I always thought that REN still played a role in determining the number of supported devices.

[HHGTTG]

I believe one can have a maximum of 5 DV Adapters registered to the SH2.

[GARRY_AND_SUSIE]

@pddco

> But don’t think you need to worry in your case.. Unless of course you do actually have such proper phones :). 

We did have originally - the one in the shed & the external bell would certainly have been classed as "old school proper ringing bell phones"   They were why we needed the old REN booster, they wouldn't ring properly without it.

They could all be done away with when we rewired / moved everything about getting ready for DV

[GARRY_AND_SUSIE]

@modenu 

> I always thought that REN still played a role in determining the number of supported devices.

It seems to if you have old equipment with proper bells, but the current draw & technology in the modern stuff doesn't seem to be as affected as per "pddco" post above.

[GARRY_AND_SUSIE]

@HHGTTG  

> I believe one can have a maximum of 5 DV Adapters registered to the SH2. 

That's been the limit for all the BT DECT cordless phones base units we tried, but I think one of the Panasonic ones allowed 6 iirc?