On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 20:42, Steven Critchfield wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 06:17, Jeremy Lowery wrote: > > I am currently a new asterisk user and new to telephony in general. I > > have been looking around to implement a solution with asterisk that has > > many of the nice features of a proprietary PBX for a small office. The > > features that I am looking for that I haven't been able to find any > > information on are: > > > > - status light indicators for which incoming line in ringing > > - status light indicators for which lines are currently in use > > > > Basically any information on phones (analog preferred or hard VoIP) > > which have status light indicator buttons that can be made to function > > with asterisk. > > > > Is this possible, and has anyone set up a phone system with these > > features using asterisk? If so, what phones were used and what kind of > > special configuration is required? > > You are looking for line occurences/apperances. > > Your problem is that in the analog world, to get those line apperances > you have to wire every line to every phone. Not very efficient, nor > practical, nor does it scale to a large number of phone lines. Plus on > some circuits, lines are not relavent, such as a PRI.
However, it might be relevant to be able to: a) program 5 lights on each phone to display the status of the 5 extensions of people in your 'group'. b) program a number of lights on each phone to display the number of people in a specific queue (ie, each light represents a 'position' in the queue). > Under asterisk, you are encouraged to use extensions. Extensions are > flexible and scaleable. Your 3 line phone system now can scale up to 2 > or 3 PRI without making major changes to user behavior. You will not > find a phone system with a T1 worth of indicator lights in a price range > for every persons desk, You wouldn't want a phone with enough > lights/buttons to access 3 T1s worth of phone lines. Unfortunately I have this situation: Another supplier proposing an NEC phone system where the phones have 16 programmable keys for Direct Station Selection (DSS)/Busy Lamp Fields (BLF) or Feature Access. AND The customer 'must have' a number of those DSS/BLF's, where must have seems to be around 4 to 5. So, I would absolutely love to be able to do this with some VoIP hardware phone such as the polycom IP600 or even a cisco 7960. > So before you hamstring your small office into having unnecessary > growing pains as it expands at some time down the road, think about the > nicer, larger PBX solutions. True, but would still be nice to see the status of the people around you/in your team. How can I offer any sort of comparable/competitive system without this?? Regards, Adam _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
