If you had a grandstream-only environment you could just use the page function built into the phones. To use it, activate a line by pressing it's button, then press the menu button. This causes the display to say "PAGE" instead of "DIAL" at which point you would dial the number you want to page.
Since you have Aastra phones too this probably won't do you any good. I'm sorry you have to deal with Grandstream phones. I fought with them (and Grandstream support) for over a year before finally giving up and convincing my employer to buy Polycom phones. A word of advice: don't expect presence to ever work, and expect to have to reboot phones that dial into the auto attendant and use the dial by name directory. REFER makes them do weird things. To show you what I mean: Dial the auto attendant, then dial any user's extension. After the "please hold while I transfer your call" prompt the phone will activate a second line, putting the first one on hold. Immediately hang the phone up. Your first line will now be "stuck" on hold with no way to fix it other than rebooting. Dale D wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="utf-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Organization: SipXecs Forum > X-FUDforum: 08063afcdd00a6e76393c5b9527381e8 <43811> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > > > I'm evaluating 4.0.4 and am trying paging and intercom with > Aastra and Grandstream phones. I observe that Paging works > properly with both phones (once I set the Grandstream phone > option for "Auto Answer by Call Info" (which is not > supported via the automatic provisioning in sipXecs). > > When I use Intercom and call the Aastra phone it answers as > expected. When I call the Grandstream phone using Intercom, > it does not autoanswer, though, as I reported above, it does > autoanswer properly for paging. This would imply that the > header > "Call-Info: answer-after=0" is not being used for intercom, > but is being used for paging. Is this a known issue? > > I search the forum for this topic and found some discussion > but could not find what was decided and/or if the feature > will change in an upcoming release. In 4.0.4 there is an > "Alert Info" header line for Polycom that can be configured > in the Intercom configuration, but it seems to me that using > the Call-info line mentioned above would be useful for other > phones that support it. > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ > _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
