asterisk users - Jul 2010 - Poor-man's paging through multiple phones?

We're mostly Cisco CallManager with some SIP and Asterisk.

I want someone at one of our locations to be able to dial and number
and have Asterisk simultaneously dial several Call-Manager extensions
which are set to auto-answer and talk into the phone creating a sort
of paging system.

We have informacast, but it is too cumbersome for the users.

I know Asterisk can ring several phones at the same time... if one of
them answers, the others stop right?

>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>Subject: [asterisk-users] Poor-man's paging through multiple phones?
>We have informacast, but it is too cumbersome for the users.
>I know Asterisk can ring several phones at the same time... if one of
>them answers, the others stop right?
Dial stops when the first line answers or timeout occurs, so
Dial(dahdi/1/5551212&dahdi/2/5550123&dahdi/3/5550231,60,m) would stop
after
60 seconds or as soon as anybody picked up.

There is a 'Page' command in asterisk for this purpose.

What you are trying to achieve, I have implemented a few times using MeetMe.
But I needed to send a sip-info message to customers' grandstream phones to
turn speakers on their speaker on. Do you have some similar option on your
phones?

Zeeshan A Zakaria

--
www.ilovetovoip.com

On 2010-07-23 10:49 AM, "Danny Nicholas" <danny at debsinc.com>
wrote:
>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>Subject: [asterisk-users] Poor-man's paging through multiple phones?
>We have informacast, but it is too cumbersome for the users.
>I know Asterisk can ring several ph...
Dial stops when the first line answers or timeout occurs, so
Dial(dahdi/1/5551212&dahdi/2/5550123&dahdi/3/5550231,60,m) would stop
after
60 seconds or as soon as anybody picked up.




-- 
_____________________________________________________________________
-- Bandwidth and Coloca...
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20100723/a756e087/attachment.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces
at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter Pauly
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:33 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] Poor-man's paging through multiple phones?

We're mostly Cisco CallManager with some SIP and Asterisk.

I want someone at one of our locations to be able to dial and number and have
Asterisk simultaneously dial several Call-Manager extensions which are set to
auto-answer and talk into the phone creating a sort of paging system.

We have informacast, but it is too cumbersome for the users.

I know Asterisk can ring several phones at the same time... if one of them
answers, the others stop right?

--
True, but you could have your paging app record the announcement and then play
the recording out via an AGI/AMI Originate to each phone.

If you're looking more for a hoot-and-holler system, use the AGI/AMI
Originate to dial the extensions and place the phones into a MeetMe/Conference
bridge.

For the simultaneous dialing part, be sure to research the Async option on
Originate.  The increased performance is quite noticeable in applications like
this.

PERL/C/PHP/'Rails/Java, choose your weapon.  If you've got the CM set up
already, each of the AGI/AMI frameworks should have examples on how to do
Originate calls.

-Elliot





This message is intended only for the use of the individual (s) or entity to
which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged,
confidential, and/or proprietary to Calling Circles LLC and its affiliates. If
the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any dissemination, distribution, forwarding or copying of this
communication is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you
have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately
and delete the original message.