[Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-11 Thread Mike Myers
Well, it looks like there is no way for Asterisk to read the MWI fsk tones from the PSTN at this time. Sigh... Anyways, I am going to get a couple outboard boxes with MWI indicators on them, and see if my wife can deal with that to tell if a message is waiting instead of the MWI on the handset.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-03 Thread Time Bandit
Jon, etc..., the issue here is her family all uses special features of SBC voicemail. E.g. Her mom leaves a VM for my wife at 10:30 PM after the baby is asleep without fear of ringing the phones and possibly waking up the baby. They use it like email. They The only way I see is make an

[Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-02 Thread Mike Myers
Jon Radon wrote: Woah woah woah.. why not just disable SBC voicemail and have asterisk handle it? I don't understand why you would go to such great lengths when you can just have Asterisk deal with it. Jon, etc..., the issue here is her family all uses special features of SBC voicemail. E.g.

[Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-01 Thread John Novack
Mike Myers wrote: John Novack wrote: Mike Myers wrote: Hi.. I am about to replace my aging Nortel Venture system with an Asterisk system and 6 Polycom IP 501 phones, and a couple sipura 841's for less used areas. We have 3 phone lines here. One is SBC, one Vonage,

[Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-01 Thread Mike Myers
John, et al, --- John Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... AFAIK, there is no way around this with a POTS line. SBC's only indication of MW is stutter dial tone, correct? No, I believe they send tones that activate the MWI light on the phones. I am pretty sure about this, but you can

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-01 Thread Chris A. Icide
John Novack wrote: Mike Myers wrote: snip Wow, this is a serious problem for me. I don't need to actually check the voicemail itself from Asterisk, just to be able to tell that there is voicemail waiting. Are you saying there is no way in Asterisk to do this? Is that true for using

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-01 Thread Robert Webb
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:10:27 -0700 Chris A. Icide [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Novack wrote: Mike Myers wrote: snip Wow, this is a serious problem for me. I don't need to actually check the voicemail itself from Asterisk, just to be able to tell that there is voicemail waiting. Are

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-01 Thread Jay Milk
I'm using $5 surplussed ATT Message Waiting Lights, which I modified to show different colors. It's a works-for-me solution, of course. -Original Message- From: Mike Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC find a way

[Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-01 Thread Mike Myers
Chris A. Icide wrote: Here is what I would do. Install a TDM04 card with a couple fxos. Connect the analog phones that your wife will be using to the tdm card. In zapata.conf, set those phones to immediate=yes, and when you get an event on the fxo port, connect it to the fxs port with the

[Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-01 Thread Mike Myers
Robert Webb wrote: Or, could you use something like the zap_barge option tied into a routine that monitors for the FSK and then when it is received, it then runs the routine that is already in place to set the MWI for the FXS ports. Crude, I know, but the only way I can think of to pass it.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: passing through MWI info from SBC

2005-07-01 Thread John Novack
Mike Myers wrote: Thanks, but my wife never pays attention to the stutter tone, just the MWI. I know I can light the Polycom's MWI under Asterisk's control, but if Asterisk can't hear the FSK tone then it's not useful... Does anyone know if the FSK CAN be detected by Asterisk? Asterisk