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font-size:10pt;"><div>Thanks Mike - this does help. The setup will
be a local server on the LAN, and hopefully have plenty of snort to handle the
load (20-30 phones). I also am not quite ready to put out 1.8 for my users
yet.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have a
snippet of dialplan code you'd be willing to share to loop through a group
and grab/build up a list of channels as you describe? That would be enlightening
(and probably save me some
time)!</div><div><br></div><div>What I am hearing
is - using a second line presence for the Page() function will work; auto-answer
should work and I should only page the phones that are not in
use.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cassius<br></div>
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] advice re: Page() application<br>
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Date: Thu, October 14, 2010 10:12 am<br>
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Cassius,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">Can`t help for SPA-942, but the Wiki had good info on the
Polycoms. Use the Wiki and you`ll do good. Two
warnings:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div
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Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It
seems to me that the adhoc MeetMe room used by the page application slows things
down quite a lot. If you page and have a phone nearby, you`ll hear
yourself with quite a bit of delay. It`s very annoying if you`re
paging and hearing the page at the same time. Apparently 1.8 supports multicast
and will do this differently, but it’ll be a long while before I trust 1.8
to be stable enough for my
needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If
you`re doing this over an Internet link (i.e. hosted PBX), keep in mind that
because of the MeetMe (I imagine), even if the receiving phones aren’t creating
audio, the bandwidth is still is used as if everyone was talking at the same
time in a MeetMe room. No biggie if everything is on the LAN, but a bit of a
problem if not and you have many
phones.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">And here is a tip: auto-answer is good, but you`ll have to loop
through every SIP registration on the phone before using Page() to see if they
are being used before adding them to the Page. If not, the phone will not
auto-answer (since you`re on a call already) but you`ll have a missed call
everytime somebody pages you while you`re on the phone. Users hate
that (with reason). You check if each and every phone is being used
BEFORE adding them to your page. In other words, if 10 out of 15
phones are idle, Page() only those
10.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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125);">Besides that, things work as advertised.
<o:p></o:p></span></div><div
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cassius Smith<br><b>Sent:</b>
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> [asterisk-users] advice re:
Page()
application<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div
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class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">Hi
all,<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">I'm
planning a new Asterisk installation; the users want to duplicate the paging
function they have with their current Panasonic hybrid system. They dial *3 and
announce a held call on line 3, for example, and the announcements comes out of
all the desktop phone speakers.
<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">I'm
planning to implement this using the Page() application in addition to parking
the call. The O'Reilly book doesn't talk much about Page(), just says
that it dumps the channels into a dynamically created MeetMe room which is
quickly torn
down.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">To make this
work with typical desktop speakerphones, is there anything I need to do in
sip.conf? (I was thinking I might need to set autoanswer=yes, for example). I
can use a second line presence on all the phones to support this if necessary;
I'm using SPA-942s. I don't want all the phones to ring - just have the
announcement audible at each phone without the user needing to pick
up.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:
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class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">I apologize
for not being able to try this out myself - I'm out of the country with no
access to sip phones right now. Any help/lessons learned using Page() would be
most
appreciated!<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:
black;">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">Cassius
Smith<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><hr>--
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