Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging
Alfred R. Nurnberger wrote: There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to a regular phone line on one side and to a paging amplifier on the other side. Could you provide a pointer? The search terms pager and telephone together are giving me a heck of a lot of noise. . . Thx. B. ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging
There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to a regular phone line on one side and to a paging amplifier on the other side. Could you provide a pointer? The search terms pager and telephone together are giving me a heck of a lot of noise. . . Thx. B. http://www.valcom.com Easy to use, widely available and fairly inexpensive. ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging
Bogen - Original Message - From: Brian Capouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging Alfred R. Nurnberger wrote: There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to a regular phone line on one side and to a paging amplifier on the other side. Could you provide a pointer? The search terms pager and telephone together are giving me a heck of a lot of noise. . . Thx. B. ___ 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 ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging
Smarthome has an inexpensive one at: http://www.smarthome.com/77965.html for $60.00 This one needs a FXO port though. Alfred. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Capouch Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging Alfred R. Nurnberger wrote: There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to a regular phone line on one side and to a paging amplifier on the other side. Could you provide a pointer? The search terms pager and telephone together are giving me a heck of a lot of noise. . . Thx. B. ___ 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 ___ 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
[Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging
I see a lot of chatter in the archives about intercom and paging, but has anyone addressed zone paging? Each of the 50 telephones in a large clinic would be members of one or more paging zones. Someone could then page Dr. X in zone #1. Would this be possible with analog phones? SIP? Thanks, Mike ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging
I see a lot of chatter in the archives about intercom and paging, but has anyone addressed zone paging? Each of the 50 telephones in a large clinic would be members of one or more paging zones. Someone could then page Dr. X in zone #1. Would this be possible with analog phones? SIP? Summarizing from memory only, I believe this has been discussed more then once on the list and usually comes down to... what device(s) provide an auto-answer extension and includes an audio output jack that can be plugged into a paging amplifier? The two most common suggestions (from memory again) has been: 1. Use of the sound card on the asterisk machine (which sort of implies a limit of one paging zone), or, 2. Use a sip phone (Cisco 7960 with v6 as one example), configure the phone to support auto-answer, and connect the external headset to the paging amp. (Implies one sip phone per paging zone.) I've not tried either, so not sure of success/failure rates or problems. Seems like a fair number of people have problems getting the sound card to play nicely with asterisk, and most of the chatter seems to be oriented around sound card driver issues, etc. Don't know if the ata-186 supports auto-answer in current software, but if it did, jury-rigging a matching transformer as a source of zone audio would not seem like it would be very difficult. (Anyone know whether the 186 can be configured for auto answer?) Rich ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging
There are a number of paging interfaces available which connect to a regular phone line on one side and to a paging amplifier on the other side. Use one or more of these - connect them to FXS cards either Digiums 4xFXS or a channel bank and make the extensions your paging zones in the dialplan. Regards Alfred R. Nurnberger --- F L O S Y S Making Communications Flow Tel: +1 (503) 972-9300 Fax: +1 (503) 972-9309 US Toll Free: 1-877-4FLOSYS h323: 208.187.136.227 http://www.flosys.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Welter Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 6:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging I see a lot of chatter in the archives about intercom and paging, but has anyone addressed zone paging? Each of the 50 telephones in a large clinic would be members of one or more paging zones. Someone could then page Dr. X in zone #1. Would this be possible with analog phones? SIP? Thanks, Mike ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zone Paging
I see a lot of chatter in the archives about intercom and paging, but has anyone addressed zone paging? Each of the 50 telephones in a large clinic would be members of one or more paging zones. Someone could then page Dr. X in zone #1. Would this be possible with analog phones? SIP? Summarizing from memory only, I believe this has been discussed more then once on the list and usually comes down to... what device(s) provide an auto-answer extension and includes an audio output jack that can be plugged into a paging amplifier? The two most common suggestions (from memory again) has been: 1. Use of the sound card on the asterisk machine (which sort of implies a limit of one paging zone), or, 2. Use a sip phone (Cisco 7960 with v6 as one example), configure the phone to support auto-answer, and connect the external headset to the paging amp. (Implies one sip phone per paging zone.) I've not tried either, so not sure of success/failure rates or problems. Seems like a fair number of people have problems getting the sound card to play nicely with asterisk, and most of the chatter seems to be oriented around sound card driver issues, etc. Don't know if the ata-186 supports auto-answer in current software, but if it did, jury-rigging a matching transformer as a source of zone audio would not seem like it would be very difficult. (Anyone know whether the 186 can be configured for auto answer?) Rich I have experimented with this in tentative ways in the following manner with Cisco 7960 phones with the new 6.1 SIP image which has the ability to auto-answer: - configure members of your group with 7960 phones such that they have a line that auto-answers. If you want to be clever, you can make it so that any outbound calls made on that key will lead to your paging extension ( use _. ) - create a special paging extension, ringable from other lines - when the paging extension is called, it runs a short AGI script that dumps out several .call files that call the members of the paging group, and sends them all to a conference call. The call duration is forced to be 20 seconds (AbsoluteTimeout) and all the called parties are set to mute. The caller makes their 20 second announcement, and hangs up. The other phones go silent, and after the 20 second timer, they are hung up. - the caller then has to pause for a few seconds to wait for RTP to catch up; this is a minor inconvenience, and users hopefully will quickly figure out that they need to pause for a few seconds before they start talking. - you may experience strange out-of-sync jitter if the phones are turned up, since each station will be firing up a separate RTP stream to the * server. This is meant for quiet, at-the-desk paging instead of the kind of blaring-trumpets-and-cannons paging you get at somewhere like a machine shop or an auto body garage JT ___ 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
