asterisk users - Jun 2007 - Sending text to a phone that's no in-use ...

Anyone know if it's possible to send a line of text to a phone that's
not
currently in-use?

What I want is:

   SendText(SIP/101, "Hello World")

but that doesn't exist ...

I'm after an application where someone (say a receptionist) can send one 
of a small set of pre-defined messages, so that when someone next looks at 
their phone it might say: "Wife Called", "Check Email",
"collect
printout", and so on, rather than leaving voicemail, but I'm not sure
it's
actually possible...

Failing that, I suppose I could just dump a pre-canned audio file & the 
appropriate header file in the voicemail spool.. but I'd rather just send 
a message to the phone.

Cheers,

Gordon

If they're polycom 501s or higher, you could have each phone use a
different homepage. Those pages could be loaded dynamically (say in php)
and then you could just store the "message" to display in a database.
Probably easiest to maintain and create an interface for.

Rob

Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
> Anyone know if it's possible to send a line of text to a phone
that's
> not currently in-use?
>
> What I want is:
>
>   SendText(SIP/101, "Hello World")
>
> but that doesn't exist ...
>
> I'm after an application where someone (say a receptionist) can send
> one of a small set of pre-defined messages, so that when someone next
> looks at their phone it might say: "Wife Called", "Check
Email",
> "collect printout", and so on, rather than leaving voicemail, but
I'm
> not sure it's actually possible...
>
> Failing that, I suppose I could just dump a pre-canned audio file &
> the appropriate header file in the voicemail spool.. but I'd rather
> just send a message to the phone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gordon
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