asterisk users - Jul 2005 - Polycoms and paging

I'm looking at deploying some Polycom 501's here, but one thing that
still
needs confirmation before I can move forward is global paging.

I figure that I can couple polycom auto-answer
(http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Polycom+auto-answer+config) with
this script:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-March/040186.html

However, that script was posted over a year ago.

I'm hoping someone can confirm for me whether the info on these two pages
will
still work with * 1.0.7+ so I know what to expect to get paging to work.

I'm not sure how much time investment my superiors will accept and while
paging is not a make-it-or-break-it feature, they will be duly impressed if I
can get it working.

Thanks for any feedback anyone might have on this...

-- 
-M

There are 10 kinds of people in this world:
	Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.

On 13-Jul-05, at 6:43 AM, Michael George wrote:
> I'm looking at deploying some Polycom 501's here, but one thing  
> that still
> needs confirmation before I can move forward is global paging.
I just wrote an AGI for polycom paging the other day, which I'm happy  
to share.

The AGI will ring a list of extension (and set the ALERT_INFO var).   
Any extensions that answer within 5 seconds (ie: polycom auto answer)  
will be dropped into a listen-only meetme room.  All extensions will  
be hung up on when the caller/pager hangs up.

You can get the AGI from here:

http://www.coalescentsystems.ca/karma/pager.agi

Asterisk-perl is required.  Change the * manager access credentials:

$astman->user('admin');
$astman->secret('amp111');


In your extension.conf, include the following, and modify the  
"extenlist" variable appropriately:

  *** Sample pager extension***
  exten = 9876,1,SetVar(extenlist=SIP/204&SIP/205)
  exten = 9876,2,AGI(pager.agi)
  exten = 9876,3,Goto(joinmeetme,pager${EXTEN},1)
  ******

  [joinmeetme]
  exten = _pagerX.,1,MeetMe(${EXTEN:5}|Axdq)
  exten = _pageX.,1,SetVar(ALERT_INFO=Ring Answer)
  exten = _pageX.,2,Answer()
  exten = _pageX.,3,Wait(2)
  exten = _pageX.,4,MeetMe(${EXTEN:4}|mxq)


I hope you find it useful.

-- 
Ryan Courtnage
Director & CTO
Coalescent Systems Inc.
Enabling Open Source Telephony
403.244.8089
www.coalescentsystems.ca