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[kevin.larsen at pionee...]

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

[isrlgb at gmail.com]

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.larsen@pioneerballoon.com (kevin.larsen@pioneerballoon.com)> wrote:

[kevin.larsen at pionee...]

[dk at donkelly.biz]

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

[kevin.larsen at pionee...]