Hi All, I have an employee who works mostly in our office but maybe once or twice a week has to work from home to help care for her special needs child. As background we have AAH 2.0 running with 8 analog lines connected to two digium t400P cards. We have 10 sipura-841s as handsets in the office. I would like the employee to be able to make and take calls from her house when the she has to work from home. I'm leaning towards just installing s/w on her laptop with a headset for that setup. My question is how to handle setting her up so that she only has one extension shared between the office phone and her laptop. For this to work, do I need to unplug her phone from power/network in the office when she is at home or, hopefully, is there some other magic that can happen? TIA, Mike
Lots of options here. You could turn her DID into a hunt group that rings both phones. You could write a small webapp that lets her toggle which phone to use (the web app would edit the extensions.conf file and then reload the configs in Asterisk)... or the easiest way is to simply let her take the phone home and plug it into her home network. If you don't allow public access then simply get a Linksys firewall/router with VPN access and set that up for her so that it creates a local VPN between her home and your office. It works fairly well. Good Luck! On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 17:14, Mike McMullen wrote:> Hi All, > > I have an employee who works mostly in our office but > maybe once or twice a week has to work from home to help > care for her special needs child. > > As background we have AAH 2.0 running with 8 analog lines > connected to two digium t400P cards. We have 10 sipura-841s > as handsets in the office. > > I would like the employee to be able to make and take calls > from her house when the she has to work from home. I'm leaning > towards just installing s/w on her laptop with a headset for that > setup. > > My question is how to handle setting her up so that she only has one > extension shared between the office phone and her laptop. For this > to work, do I need to unplug her phone from power/network in > the office when she is at home or, hopefully, is there some other > magic that can happen? > > TIA, > > Mike > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --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
Give here 2 SIP accounts in the SIP.conf and have the extension ring both of them at the same time. exten => 0042,1,dial(SIP/acc1&SIP/Acc2) If one of the sip account is not registered it will not ring. Best regards jan --On Thursday, December 01, 2005 02:14:24 PM -0800 Mike McMullen <mlm@loanprocessing.net> wrote:> Hi All, > > I have an employee who works mostly in our office but > maybe once or twice a week has to work from home to help > care for her special needs child. > > As background we have AAH 2.0 running with 8 analog lines > connected to two digium t400P cards. We have 10 sipura-841s > as handsets in the office. > > I would like the employee to be able to make and take calls > from her house when the she has to work from home. I'm leaning > towards just installing s/w on her laptop with a headset for that > setup. > > My question is how to handle setting her up so that she only has one > extension shared between the office phone and her laptop. For this > to work, do I need to unplug her phone from power/network in > the office when she is at home or, hopefully, is there some other > magic that can happen? > > TIA, > > Mike > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --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-- +------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Irial / YASK AB ! Att: Jan Saell ! Box 59, S-692 21 KUMLA, SWEDEN ! Tel: 019-58 25 15 Int +46-19 58 25 15 Fax +46-19 58 38 05 ! E-mail: jan@irial.com ! PGP Fingerprint: E957 23C8 9F51 0958 B9AD 7F18 404A 5DA1 F944 A08B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051201/c169f5c6/attachment.pgp
Mike McMullen wrote:> Hi All, > > I have an employee who works mostly in our office but > maybe once or twice a week has to work from home to help > care for her special needs child. > > As background we have AAH 2.0 running with 8 analog lines > connected to two digium t400P cards. We have 10 sipura-841s > as handsets in the office. > > I would like the employee to be able to make and take calls > from her house when the she has to work from home. I'm leaning > towards just installing s/w on her laptop with a headset for that > setup. > > My question is how to handle setting her up so that she only has one > extension shared between the office phone and her laptop. For this > to work, do I need to unplug her phone from power/network in > the office when she is at home or, hopefully, is there some other > magic that can happen?AMP's Devices/Users configuration mode will give you what you want. 1 user, 2 devices (hardphone at the office, softphone at home). Regards, -- Jason Becker Director & CEO Coalescent Systems Inc. Enabling Open Source Telephony 403.244.8089 www.coalescentsystems.ca
On 12/1/05, Mike McMullen <mlm@loanprocessing.net> wrote:> Hi All, > > I have an employee who works mostly in our office but > maybe once or twice a week has to work from home to help > care for her special needs child. > > As background we have AAH 2.0 running with 8 analog lines > connected to two digium t400P cards. We have 10 sipura-841s > as handsets in the office. > > I would like the employee to be able to make and take calls > from her house when the she has to work from home. I'm leaning > towards just installing s/w on her laptop with a headset for that > setup. > > My question is how to handle setting her up so that she only has one > extension shared between the office phone and her laptop. For this > to work, do I need to unplug her phone from power/network in > the office when she is at home or, hopefully, is there some other > magic that can happen?What about just using call forwarding? Chris
you direct the calls to a ring group where both extensions are a member of it (etc etc) you'll work it out from there, just stop trying to set up the same extension twice and start thinking groups. Cheers, Dean ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com on behalf of Mike McMullen Sent: Thu 12/1/2005 5:14 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Two Phones - Same extension? Hi All, I have an employee who works mostly in our office but maybe once or twice a week has to work from home to help care for her special needs child. As background we have AAH 2.0 running with 8 analog lines connected to two digium t400P cards. We have 10 sipura-841s as handsets in the office. I would like the employee to be able to make and take calls from her house when the she has to work from home. I'm leaning towards just installing s/w on her laptop with a headset for that setup. My question is how to handle setting her up so that she only has one extension shared between the office phone and her laptop. For this to work, do I need to unplug her phone from power/network in the office when she is at home or, hopefully, is there some other magic that can happen? TIA, Mike _______________________________________________ --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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4782 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051201/6de03d4a/attachment.bin