asterisk users - Aug 2014 - Loud Ringers and paging systems...

Working on a paging system for one of my sites and running into something 
I can't believe is this hard. In one of the zones, they want to have three 
different extensions ring over the pa system, using it as a loud ringer. 
Now the paging system does have a loud ringer built in and I can easily 
have it do a simultaneous ring, but all of the extensions will sound the 
same over the loud ringer. Of course, we want them to have different rings 
over the pa system so that all three people don't have to check their 
phone every time it rings.

So far, the only semi solution I am coming up with (short of buying three 
different loud ringers and wiring them into the paging system) is to have 
my dialplan generate a call file that will make a second call to the 
paging system and play out an audio file based on who we are doing the 
loud ringer for. This has the disadvantage that it isn't a true loud 
ringer as it will only play for however long I tell it to and it won't cut 
off if they answer the phone before the audio file finishes playing. 

Anyone have any suggestions about a better way to handle this? Really 
hoping there is an Asterisk dialplan solution as I don't want to triple my 
paging hardware just to add one tiny piece of functionality.

Kevin Larsen
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if you use a papt2 or so spa2101 then you could have alert info set to
different lengths or styles of ringers

i use that in a dorm with phones and have the phones ring short rings at
night so it wont wake up the students


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Kevin Larsen <
kevin.larsen at pioneerballoon.com> wrote:
> Working on a paging system for one of my sites and running into something
> I can't believe is this hard. In one of the zones, they want to have
three
> different extensions ring over the pa system, using it as a loud ringer.
> Now the paging system does have a loud ringer built in and I can easily
> have it do a simultaneous ring, but all of the extensions will sound the
> same over the loud ringer. Of course, we want them to have different rings
> over the pa system so that all three people don't have to check their
phone
> every time it rings.
>
> So far, the only semi solution I am coming up with (short of buying three
> different loud ringers and wiring them into the paging system) is to have
> my dialplan generate a call file that will make a second call to the paging
> system and play out an audio file based on who we are doing the loud ringer
> for. This has the disadvantage that it isn't a true loud ringer as it
will
> only play for however long I tell it to and it won't cut off if they
answer
> the phone before the audio file finishes playing.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions about a better way to handle this? Really
> hoping there is an Asterisk dialplan solution as I don't want to triple
my
> paging hardware just to add one tiny piece of functionality.
>
> Kevin Larsen
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