Re: [asterisk-users] Loud Ringers and paging systems...

2014-08-06 Thread Israel Gottlieb
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
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Re: [asterisk-users] Loud Ringers and paging systems...

2014-08-06 Thread Kevin Larsen
 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 

I do not use either of those devices, but after posting this yesterday, I 
did end up coming up with a way to do this making use of Asterisk dialplan 
code and the paging side of the paging/night ringer system.

The basic concept is that the original call will run a script that creates 
a call file to call the paging system and play a specific audio file. It 
also passes into the paging call its channel name. In the call to the 
paging system, I use the SHARED function to write back to the original 
calls' channel the channel name of the paging call. Then when the original 
call is answered, it runs a subroutine that redirects the paging call to a 
priority that hangs that call up.

If anyone is interested, I have my proof of concept code that I could post 
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Re: [asterisk-users] Loud Ringers and paging systems...

2014-08-06 Thread Don Kelly

The basic concept is that the original call will run a script that creates a
call file to call the paging system and play a specific audio file. It also
passes into the paging call its channel name. In the call to the paging
system, I use the SHARED function to write back to the original calls'
channel the channel name of the paging call. Then when the original call is
answered, it runs a subroutine that redirects the paging call to a priority
that hangs that call up. 

Will your approach handle ringing more than one of the three extensions
simultaneously?

 

  --Don

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Re: [asterisk-users] Loud Ringers and paging systems...

2014-08-06 Thread Kevin Larsen
 
 Will your approach handle ringing more than one of the three 
 extensions simultaneously?
 
   --Don

Not if they are in the same paging zone, but neither would using the night 
ringer function on the pa system, so I consider that acceptable. Not even 
sure what would be considered correct in the case of two at the same time. 
First come/first serve is the only thing that comes to mind as being 
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[asterisk-users] Loud Ringers and paging systems...

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin Larsen
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-- 
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