Lost my previous posting on this darnit. Forgot to change the TO: field
again.
Mike, there's no e-mail gateway for the paging switch. I asked because we
could sure use it.
I could use the TAP gateway, but I don't want to take the chance of tying up
the port in case this interferes with the ambulance service. They use it also
with Notepager. Interesting that their site also has the TAP numbers.
Sooo....it seems like I should add an AGI script that runs after the voicemail
is processed and only for my extension. It would harvest the most recent
number from the caller ID in the my voicemail listing, dial the pager number,
and send the digits after a suitable delay. That seems not too hard. Could
be an interesting project. If I want an actual message, then check out qpage,
right? That site is not coming up for me BTW. It seems to be here:
http://www.qpage.com/
Thanks guys,
Peter MacFarlane
> Hi,
>
> I've done a bit of work on this, so I'll post my thoughts.
>
> Firstly, E-mail to Cell phone gateways are severely crippled if you're
> using Rogers based services. They require you to "reply" to incoming
> messages to read the messages.
> This means that you get charged for an outgoing message.
>
> The ultimate solution is to us a TAP gateway, and TAP based software,
> such as Send page.
> Sendpage will handle SMS and Alphanumeric pages, and works with just
> about all providers.
>
> I have been using this for Network monitoring, before sendpage we used
> to get a SMS message saying we had an e-mail, and could reply to read
> the message, where as now we receive the entire message.
>
> For Asterisk to catch the incoming digits, you could either use the
> Caller ID, or prompt for digits.
> Once you have this information, run a system command to send the SMS
> message.
>
>
> To connect to a TAP system, you will need a analog modem (I bet you can
> use a FXS device) to communicate.
>
> Chad
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Sent: October 2, 2006 9:20 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [on-asterisk] Paging an alpha pager
>
> I had an idea and I wonder if its been done. How easy would it be to
> have the * server send me an alpha page of the caller's number when
> someone leaves me a voicemail? I would imagine there would have to be a
> delay when the paging switch answers so that * waits for the IVR prompt
> to finish so it can send the digits. Is this something that has to be
> invented from scratch? There aren't too many alpha pagers in use
> anymore so it may not be a priority for anyone else. I think I have the
> public paging port number so I can get it to send a complete message,
> but I don't want to take the chance of tying up the port.
>
> Regards,
> Peter M.
>
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