> I use Asterisk at home to filter the annoying people before they get a real
voice. So
basically if you don't know the extension of one of the occupants you have
no choice but leave a
message. Works well... perhaps I miss some improtant calls, but if you leave no
message it must
not be important!>
> Anyhow, I would like to be able to make the phone ring distinctively
depending on who the call
is suppose to go too(wife, teenagers, myself). I was thinking of buying a single
Iaxy to do this
but I cannot see from the specs if I could do this. If I cannot does any of
you have an idea
on how to achieve this goal without spending a lot of money(such has 4 Iaxy
modules + 3 new
phones). >
> Another way I thought of doing this is by making the user dial a specific
internal extention
to bridge the person on hold on the FXO side to the internal
user?>
Some phones/adapters support distinctive ringing while others don't.
I use the spa3k (fxs port) to reach house phones with something like:
exten => 3020,1,SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=bellcore-r3) ; selects Ringer
to ring the phones with two short rings for certain calls.
The nice thing about the spa3k is that you _can_ independently handle
incoming fxo calls from a pstn line and calls to the fxs port. It's
not all that easy to program however.
In my case, all house phones are attached to the fxs port. Therefore,
one could have about five different distinctive rings. I'd be fairly
certain the spa2000 (etc) has that same capabiity as well.