I currently have 4 lines coming into the house. We currently have an Avaya
standard analog key system which has served us well, but running extensions is a
major pain and requires a dedicated run per extension. I have ethernet run
throughout the house though.
The first two lines are "home" lines, however line1 I use for my
consulting during the day, and line2 is used by my wife for her work during the
day. Line3 is a separate business that nobody else in the household should be
picking up, however I would like to be able to pick it up from any extension if
required. Line4 is a fax, but is used for outgoing calls (like conference
calls, etc.) so that the inbound lines can be left free.
With the current system, I can choose which outbound trunk is used by just
selecting the line button I prefer. My wife just picks up the phone for an
outgoing call and it will choose line2, and if busy then line1. She would never
use line3 or line4. The kids should never touch lines 3 and 4 either. They all
know enough to only answer lines 1 and 2 and ignore lines 3 and 4, and can tell
since each line has a different ring as well as the line lights that blink. We
also regularly need to be able to "barge" in on each other's calls
converting a regular call into a conference.
I know what I'm looking for is SLA (Shared Line Appearance), and I've
been trying to get that working for a couple of weeks. It supposedly works
somewhat, but I cannot find enough coherent documentation as to exactly how to
set up each of the extensions and the physical Polycom phones. I do see
there's still bugs being worked on (even today) thats being tested:
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=11688
So there's two questions here. First, is there a way to accomplish the
requirements I have above to a generic asterisk installation, or are we talking
a very large and complicated configuration? Second, is there anywhere I can
find some detailed documentation on configuring SLA on Polycom phones? (For
example, for each line on the Polycom phone, does it log in with an extension
number or specifically the string "station1_line1", and does the
sip.conf get a numbered extension for each line on the phone, or do you
specifically put [statsion1_line1] in there?)
Thanks in advance...
