4 January 2008 by 
Pedro
The idea around this documentation is to modify the M34 software set-up to allow it to run as a Windows service under Windows Home Server (WHS).
A while ago, I acquired a Siemens DECT (cordless phone) to use at home in my office. I opted for Siemens first because they’re a market leader in DECT phone, and also because they had an interesting product called M34; a USB device which would allow a computer to join your DECT set-up.
With the M34 device you could do things such as remote control your computer over the telephone, have Skype calls routed to your phone system and other sorts of data transmission between your PC and DECT set-up. I got the M34 with the objective to set it on a home server, as soon as I could get one.
However, the M34 software was built around a desktop perspective. That is, its supporting software that communicates with the device were built to interact with users that are logged in into the PC. It technical terms, this means that the M34 software was not designed to be ran as a Windows service.
This documentation is a work in progress which I would like to share with people interested in using the M34 with a WHS. It is by no means a final documentation, but by sharing it with the world I am hopping to get more users interested in finding the best solution around setting the M34 with WHS as a Windows service. If there is any progress on this project, expect this documentation to change over time. Otherwise, consider it to be just the published results of my initial tests!
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