Hi there.
My wife and I run a small business out of our home. We have 2 phone
lines, and don't currently need any additional extensions. What I and
am in great need of is a voicemail system with the following
functionality:
- When we don't pick up one of our regular phones, the system
should play a greeting for callers, then allow them to either:
- leave a message without selecting an mailbox number (or by
pressing #)
- select an extension (really just a mailbox, since I don't think
we'd use any extension phones), whereupon:
- the user may press 1 to locate the mailbox owner, whereupon
the system then dials out to a cell phone using the 3-way
calling feature of the telco line.
- the user may press 2 or stay on the line to leave a message
I have read the * doc and faqs, and I think I can accomplish all of this
functionality using 2 Wildcard X100P cards w/ * on my P4 2.4GHz box with
RedHat 8.0.
Of my desired functionality, is there anything that * won't be able to
deliver? Is there anything which will be extremely complex to setup,
given that I am (or would like to think I am) a competent Linux SysAdmin
and fair-to-midland programmer?
Thanks in advance for helping me with this decision.
-Zach
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:14, Zach Mesel wrote:> Hi there. > > My wife and I run a small business out of our home. We have 2 phone > lines, and don't currently need any additional extensions. What I and > am in great need of is a voicemail system with the following > functionality: > > - When we don't pick up one of our regular phones, the system > should play a greeting for callers, then allow them to either: > - leave a message without selecting an mailbox number (or by > pressing #) > - select an extension (really just a mailbox, since I don't think > we'd use any extension phones), whereupon: > - the user may press 1 to locate the mailbox owner, whereupon > the system then dials out to a cell phone using the 3-way > calling feature of the telco line. > - the user may press 2 or stay on the line to leave a message > > I have read the * doc and faqs, and I think I can accomplish all of this > functionality using 2 Wildcard X100P cards w/ * on my P4 2.4GHz box with > RedHat 8.0. > > Of my desired functionality, is there anything that * won't be able to > deliver? Is there anything which will be extremely complex to setup, > given that I am (or would like to think I am) a competent Linux SysAdmin > and fair-to-midland programmer?Although you could do this, you would probably be better served by having asterisk sit between you and the phone lines. When the new 4 port card comes out, it should fill your needs well. You can have your 2 lines coming in, and 2 extensions. This way asterisk will answer the line regardless, then try and ring an internal line. Trying to get asterisk to work basically in answering machine mode is possible, and I believe there is more than one person here doing it. I do not believe asterisk is currently able to initiate a 3way call to the outside on the same telephone line. Being as it is a pbx, it is designed to offer 3 way calling internally. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
Just a note on my experience, I had problems trying to get * to compile and install on RH 8.0 I know others have been able to get it to work but I am not a coder.. On RH 7.2 it went in with no prolems at all.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zach Mesel" <zach@wooden-spoon.com> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:14:44 -0800 To: "Asterisk Mailing List" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk for me?> Hi there. > > My wife and I run a small business out of our home. We have 2 phone > lines, and don't currently need any additional extensions. What I and > am in great need of is a voicemail system with the following > functionality: > > - When we don't pick up one of our regular phones, the system > should play a greeting for callers, then allow them to either: > - leave a message without selecting an mailbox number (or by > pressing #) > - select an extension (really just a mailbox, since I don't think > we'd use any extension phones), whereupon: > - the user may press 1 to locate the mailbox owner, whereupon > the system then dials out to a cell phone using the 3-way > calling feature of the telco line. > - the user may press 2 or stay on the line to leave a message > > I have read the * doc and faqs, and I think I can accomplish all of this > functionality using 2 Wildcard X100P cards w/ * on my P4 2.4GHz box with > RedHat 8.0. > > Of my desired functionality, is there anything that * won't be able to > deliver? Is there anything which will be extremely complex to setup, > given that I am (or would like to think I am) a competent Linux SysAdmin > and fair-to-midland programmer? > > Thanks in advance for helping me with this decision. > > -Zach > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze