I have a company that I am going to be moving away from a legacy PBX to Asterisk. They use page zones pretty heavy and I would like to keep that functionality. Basically when someone is not at their desk the receptionist pages all of the phones, telling them there is a call. Does anyone out there know of the best phones to do this with and if it is really even possible. I see that intercom is not supported and paging appears to be minimally supported. Thanks Curt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060815/820a8bbd/attachment.htm
Any phone that supports Auto answer can do this, among those phones: Cisco 796x, Polycom 3xx,430,50x,60x, SPA9xx. The SPA9xx (which support auto answer) will even support it while you are on the phone, it will however put the current conversation on hold for the duration of the page. On 8/15/06, Curt Shaffer <cshaffer@gmail.com> wrote:> > > > > I have a company that I am going to be moving away from a legacy PBX to > Asterisk. They use page zones pretty heavy and I would like to keep that > functionality. Basically when someone is not at their desk the receptionist > pages all of the phones, telling them there is a call. Does anyone out there > know of the best phones to do this with and if it is really even possible. I > see that intercom is not supported and paging appears to be minimally > supported. > > > > Thanks > > > > Curt > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >
For intercom, do you mean placing a call that is automatically answered by the called party? If so, the following works for legacy phones connected via a Citel Handset Gateway, amongst others: exten => _*803X.,1,Macro(user-callerid) exten => _*803X.,2,SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=info=alert-autoanswer) exten => _*803X.,3,SIPAddHeader(Answer-Mode: Auto) exten => _*803X.,4,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:4}) (so you dial *803 and then the extension number you want to target) Similar techniques can be used for page. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Curt Shaffer Sent: 15 August 2006 17:16 To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [asterisk-users] Page Groups I have a company that I am going to be moving away from a legacy PBX to Asterisk. They use page zones pretty heavy and I would like to keep that functionality. Basically when someone is not at their desk the receptionist pages all of the phones, telling them there is a call. Does anyone out there know of the best phones to do this with and if it is really even possible. I see that intercom is not supported and paging appears to be minimally supported. Thanks Curt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060815/3d1d0ffc/attachment.htm
For paging, and I have not done this yet, you would probably have to invite all the phones to a conference with the auto-answer The below works great for intercom though .... Polycom which I have used... exten => _*7XXX,1,SetVar(ALERT_INFO=Ring Answer) exten => _*7XXX,2,Dial....blah Bill ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Langstaff Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:46 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Page Groups For intercom, do you mean placing a call that is automatically answered by the called party? If so, the following works for legacy phones connected via a Citel Handset Gateway, amongst others: exten => _*803X.,1,Macro(user-callerid) exten => _*803X.,2,SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=info=alert-autoanswer) exten => _*803X.,3,SIPAddHeader(Answer-Mode: Auto) exten => _*803X.,4,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:4}) (so you dial *803 and then the extension number you want to target) Similar techniques can be used for page. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Curt Shaffer Sent: 15 August 2006 17:16 To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [asterisk-users] Page Groups I have a company that I am going to be moving away from a legacy PBX to Asterisk. They use page zones pretty heavy and I would like to keep that functionality. Basically when someone is not at their desk the receptionist pages all of the phones, telling them there is a call. Does anyone out there know of the best phones to do this with and if it is really even possible. I see that intercom is not supported and paging appears to be minimally supported. Thanks Curt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060815/42d2c565/attachment.htm