Jonathan Moore wrote: > > Quoting Nick Bachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Having a DSS (the blinking lights for each extension, short for >> "Digital Station Selector") is a feature that I wish Asterisk had. A >> week or so ago there was discussion about a new Windows-based Asterisk >> application (Asterisk Call Manager for Windows?) and it was said that >> in a later version there was a plan to add a "Console mode" (the name >> for the Uberphone that the DSS attaches to). If I weren't so swamped, >> I'd ofter to help out :-). >> >> Figuring out which extensions were busy would be easy with the Manager >> API, but I'm not sure how you could forward incoming calls bound for >> another extension. I guess if it were easy enough, I guess I could >> mke a Javax/Swing app to do it. >> >> If there's already an app that does this, I haven't see it, but I'd >> love to! >> > > I think this is a hard one to deal with because you are going to need > support for this on both the phone and in *. I am really know expert My thought was a Java app that just transfered to your phone. So if a line rings and someone is DND/unavailable anther person can just forward it to their cheapo phone. I think "redirect" might do that, but I've yet to expirament. > but I think the only phones on the market that might be turned into > this are some of the programmable ones, maybe the 7690 or the Pingtel > by programming the "lights" on the lcd. Pingtels look to have a nice > display on them and are supposed to be programmable with Java. The > problem I see with this is that these are all high end fairly > expensive phones. The snom 200 may have some hooks for this, but are > limited to the 5 programmable buttons. > > The more I think about it the more I think the 7960 might be doable, > since I know my Cisco sales rep was trying to sell me on DSS. I've seen those but I'm pretty sure you have to use CCM to use them. > > I also remember reading some references to SIP protocol updates that > might include some of these types of features (pageing also) > >> >2. How does one go about creating call queues and advanced features >> >such as UCD and ACD using Asterisk? >> > >> Take a look at >> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+queues.conf and the >> pages it references. >> >> >3. Is it possible to do Phone to Phone paging with SIP phones? This >> >is a feature that I personally use a lot on my Legacy Phone System. >> >I simply hit the extension of the persion I want to chat, and it >> >beeps their phone and we can talk. Sort of like an Intercom system. >> > >> >> That would be a phone feature... I think some of the Cisco phones do >> it... it's billed as "AutoAnswer" I think. >> > > I have been looking at this angle too. I think the trick is to find a > phone that is a "multi line" VoiP model and allows per line > configuration of auto- answer. I was thinking of using a pattern where > even extensions are for ringing the phone and odd numbers are for the > intercom/pageing. Candidate phones that may be able to do this that I > am researching include snoms, cisco 7960, and swiss something (mcgp > based phone). I have mostly been looking at the low end of the phone > market, so there may be many others at the high end I am not aware of. I saw on the list a while back somebody figured out how to do this with a Cisco instrument. It's not a big deal do me, as none of the PBXs in our buildings do this, thus it's not a feature our staff has decided they can't live without. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
