On Sun, 2006-15-10 at 12:11 -0400, Noah Miller wrote: > Hi Mark - > > > > > PhoneA is a SIP hard phone, phoneB is an analogue phone connected to a > > > > SIP ATA. When an incoming call comes in, I would like to ring both > > > > phones, but if phoneA is answered first, I would like phoneB to be > > > > answered as well and left in a "off hook" state so that when someone > > > > picks up the receiver of phoneB, they can hear and participate in the > > > > conversation between the calling party and phoneA. > > > > > > > > I believe I would have to put both phones in a MeetMe conference, but > > > > how to I "auto-answer" phoneB when phoneA has answered the call? > > Two Questions: > > 1. On the SIP phone, will this special conference function be needed > on both incoming and outgoing calls, or just one of those?
just for incoming calls. > > 2. Does the analog phone have to do anything else? Should it work > like a normal phone when it's not doing this special conference > function? yes. it should work like a normal phone otherwise. > > You should be able to do this, like you said, by dumping both phones > into a meetme conference. There would be two tricky things here A) > getting the analog phone to automatically go to a meetme conference > whenever it is off-hook, B) getting outgoing calls from the sip phone > into a meetme conference (incoming calls would be easy). > > I think A) is probably not possible, given that you are using an > external ATA device. That device would somehow have to send the > off-hook status back to asterisk via sip messages (I think there's > actually a bounty for this). This should be possible if you were > using an internal zaptel card rather than an external gateway. If the > answer to question Actually I think I might be able to get it to auto-dial into a conference when it is off hook. In any case, using a zaptel card is also an option. > 2) above is yes, you would have other problems, > too. ok, maybe it can check if the conference exists and if not simply act as a normal phone? > > A good compromise to the problems of both 2) and A) would be to put > the analog phone into a special context where you'd have a one digit > press for each function (e.g. press 1 for normal phone, press 2 for > conference). > > Still, unless these users are really ornery, I'd probably just make > them learn to transfer and dial into a conference. The users (there are many of them) have a hard time adapting to change. -m
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