Messages; Mail; Caller Id - RCA DRD435RH User Manual

Caller ID

Your digital satellite receiver is ca pable of displaying and storing Caller ID inf ormation pr ovided by your local telephone
company. To use this feature, you must have your receiver directly plugged into a telephone outlet (or a RC930
wireless modem) and you must subscribe to Caller ID or similar caller identification services from your telephone
company.
Your Caller ID enables y ou to:
• Identify callers before you answer the phone .
• View the time and date of each incoming call.
• Recor d the Caller ID inf ormation of up to 20 incoming calls sequentially.
Note: Only the last ten calls will be retained after a power outage.
• See who called while y ou were away.
Ther e are two ways to access the Caller ID men us: by selecting Messages from the Main menu, or b y pressing INFO on
the remote contr ol and selecting the telephone icon in the Channel Banner . The icon will be white if y ou have received a
new call but have not accessed the Caller ID List scr een. It will be gray if you have accessed the Caller ID List scr een.
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Messages

The Messages menu lets you access messages or phone calls. If you select Mail, it shows you
messages that are sent from DIRECTV. For example, you may receive a message calling your
attention to a new service. If you select Caller ID, this menu shows you Caller ID information from
your telephone provider (if you subscribe to Caller ID service from your telephone company).

Mail

To tell if you have mail, you need to check the channel banner a vailable when you press the
remote contr ol's INFO button. In the channel banner, the mailbox icon will be highlighted if y ou
have an unread message waiting.
Checking Your Mail
Select Messages from the Main menu, then Mail from the next men u. Or select the mailbo x icon
on the channel banner to view your mail.
1. Point to a message and pr ess SELECT . The message is opened f or you to r ead.
2. Press SELECT again to close the message .
If you want to erase a message , point to Erase Message and press SELECT . When y ou exit
Messages, messages that aren't erased ar e saved in memor y.
Note: The quickest way to check for messages is to press the INFO button on the remote control. This
will display the channel banner. With the channel banner displayed, use the remote control's arrow
buttons to highlight the mail icon, then press the remote control's SELECT button to access the Mail
menu.
Setting Up Caller ID
To set up y our Caller ID , go to the Main menu and select Messages, then select Caller ID Setup.
Use the up and do wn arrow and SELECT buttons to select y our pr eferences.
Caller ID Light Setting Caller ID Light to On causes the front panel light to flash if y ou receive
new calls while the digital satellite receiver is off. The light will flash until you turn the r eceiver
on.
Caller ID Message Setting Caller ID Message to On displays the on-scr een Caller ID banner
when a call is received. You may want to turn this feature off when you are r ecor ding manually
and do not want the on-scr een messages to a ppear on your r ecor dings. Your calls will be stor ed
in the Caller ID List scr een even when Caller ID is turned off.
Caller ID Message Time-out Set the amount of time (from 1–30 seconds) that the Caller ID
banner will display when you have an incoming call. For this feature to w ork, make sur e Caller ID
Message is set to On.
Using On-Screen Menus
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