[Asterisk-Users] Question setting up a "bat phone" extension.

Eric "ManxPower" Wieling
2006-06-10T19:02:21Z

It's called "hotline" or Private Line Auto Ringdown (PLAR).

SIP: It's a function of the phone, look for "hotline" in phone
docs
Zap: immediate=yes, runs exten => when phone is picked up
Cisco and others: Look up PLAR

undrhil.1528785@bloglines.com wrote:
> Basically, I am looking to set up an extension which will be used as a
"help-line".
>  I want it to function kind of like the bat phone from the old Batman
series,
> where Commissioner Gordon would pick up the extension in his office and it
> would ring the phone back at Wayne's mansion.  Is there a way to
duplicate
> this functionality with Asterisk?
>
> I just need asterisk to auto-dial an
> extension when I go off-hook on another one.  For instance, I have two SIP
> phones, Brian and Susan.  When Susan goes off-hook, it should automatically
> ring Brian, without any other activity taking place.  If Brian goes
off-hook,
> it acts like a normal extension.



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