if you use a papt2 or so spa2101 then you could have alert info set to different lengths or styles of ringers
i use that in a dorm with phones and have the phones ring short rings at night so it wont wake up the students On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Kevin Larsen < kevin.lar...@pioneerballoon.com> wrote: > Working on a paging system for one of my sites and running into something > I can't believe is this hard. In one of the zones, they want to have three > different extensions ring over the pa system, using it as a loud ringer. > Now the paging system does have a loud ringer built in and I can easily > have it do a simultaneous ring, but all of the extensions will sound the > same over the loud ringer. Of course, we want them to have different rings > over the pa system so that all three people don't have to check their phone > every time it rings. > > So far, the only semi solution I am coming up with (short of buying three > different loud ringers and wiring them into the paging system) is to have > my dialplan generate a call file that will make a second call to the paging > system and play out an audio file based on who we are doing the loud ringer > for. This has the disadvantage that it isn't a true loud ringer as it will > only play for however long I tell it to and it won't cut off if they answer > the phone before the audio file finishes playing. > > Anyone have any suggestions about a better way to handle this? Really > hoping there is an Asterisk dialplan solution as I don't want to triple my > paging hardware just to add one tiny piece of functionality. > > Kevin Larsen > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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