*'s paging solution is a bad solution in light of today's phone systems. If you need it anywhere but in a barnyard, you should plan on selecting a different phone system. It might work in a Sams, but certainly not in an office.

I like * & as soon as I find time to get it setup, I intend to use it in our offices, but we don't use paging, I don't like paging. There are offices that use paging all day long to announce calls "Joe pickup on line 2"

To answer your question, as I understand *'s paging implementation, you assign an extension to be the "page extension", calls placed to this extension are routed to Asterisk's sound card which can then be wired into an amplifier & speakers where you want them. As stated in paragraph 1, this is fine for a barnyard or a Sam's (think barn with stuff for sale). It doesn't work in an office without putting speakers in every nook & cranny of the office.

Gene Kochanowsky wrote:

What is overhead paging and how is it done with asterisk?

Gene

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It bugs me not having intercom/paging features.  It also bugs me not
being able to look at my phones to see who's on/off.


You can do overhead paging and even stream mp3's using nbsd

Mark

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