asterisk users - Jun 2007 - setup multiple phones for 1 extension

I'll start by saying I'm a trixbox user, and a new one at that, so 
hopefully you can respond to me on those terms.

I have a user who works from home 1 day a week.  On that day I'd like 
for him to be able to connect with a softphone and be reachable by just 
dialing his extension as we normally would.  I could set him up a new 
extension, then he could forward his phone there on those days.  But I'd 
like an easier, more transparent way to do it.

So I'd like that whenever his softphone is connected ("registered"
is
the term I believe), that dialing his extension would ring his desk 
phone and his softphone (at the same time).  If the softphone isn't 
connected, then of course just the desk phone would ring.  To do this, 
do I need to setup his extension to actually be a ring group, and give 
him two separate extensions, then put those in the ring group?  Is that 
the best way to do it?  Or could he just log on twice with the same 
extension/secret?

Thanks,
-Ryan

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Stille" <ryan at cfwebtools.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:16 PM
Subject: [asterisk-users] setup multiple phones for 1 extension

> I'll start by saying I'm a trixbox user, and a new one at that, so 
> hopefully you can respond to me on those terms.
> 
> I have a user who works from home 1 day a week.  On that day I'd like 
> for him to be able to connect with a softphone and be reachable by just 
> dialing his extension as we normally would.  I could set him up a new 
> extension, then he could forward his phone there on those days.  But
I'd
> like an easier, more transparent way to do it.
> 
> So I'd like that whenever his softphone is connected
("registered" is
> the term I believe), that dialing his extension would ring his desk 
> phone and his softphone (at the same time).  If the softphone isn't 
> connected, then of course just the desk phone would ring.  To do this, 
> do I need to setup his extension to actually be a ring group, and give 
> him two separate extensions, then put those in the ring group?  Is that 
> the best way to do it?  Or could he just log on twice with the same 
> extension/secret?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ryan
> 
> 
> 
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He can not have the same username/secret.  In trixbox - your ring group idea
is probably best...

On 6/28/07, Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com>
wrote:
>
> I'll start by saying I'm a trixbox user, and a new one at that, so
> hopefully you can respond to me on those terms.
>
> I have a user who works from home 1 day a week.  On that day I'd like
> for him to be able to connect with a softphone and be reachable by just
> dialing his extension as we normally would.  I could set him up a new
> extension, then he could forward his phone there on those days.  But
I'd
> like an easier, more transparent way to do it.
>
> So I'd like that whenever his softphone is connected
("registered" is
> the term I believe), that dialing his extension would ring his desk
> phone and his softphone (at the same time).  If the softphone isn't
> connected, then of course just the desk phone would ring.  To do this,
> do I need to setup his extension to actually be a ring group, and give
> him two separate extensions, then put those in the ring group?  Is that
> the best way to do it?  Or could he just log on twice with the same
> extension/secret?
>
> Thanks,
> -Ryan
>
>
>
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Just add the softphone to the dial command. If it's not connected
nothing will bad happen
and the regular phone will ring. Whenever the softphione is registered
it will ring as well. If the other phone is a SIP phone, you could use
IAX as the softphone with the same username and password. Otherwise,
you'll need to set up another account as someone else said. I'm not
sure how this all works in trixbox, but you would just need to add the
softphone user account and add the phone to the extension. Make any
sense? The whole thing would take about 2 minutes to set up in
straight asterisk terms.

On 6/28/07, Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com> wrote:
> I have a user who works from home 1 day a week.  On that day I'd like
> for him to be able to connect with a softphone and be reachable by just
> dialing his extension as we normally would.  I could set him up a new
> extension, then he could forward his phone there on those days.  But
I'd
> like an easier, more transparent way to do it.
>
> So I'd like that whenever his softphone is connected
("registered" is
> the term I believe), that dialing his extension would ring his desk
> phone and his softphone (at the same time).  If the softphone isn't