Hi Steve, On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Steve Daniels wrote: > What excatly does it do? What messages does it send out? And what > software needs to be configured to listen for these messages?
Bret explained mostly what the software does in a basic use case where you would like a nice window to pop up with say the caller id details of an incoming call. With this same software, you may "selectively" broadcast messages for example, you may only want the sales crew to see information about a given caller and not other groups. For example: [sales-context] exten => s,1,Answer exten => s,2,Broadcast(This is a sales call|group=sales) exten => s,3,Dial(whatever) In such a case, you will need to have configured the "sales computers" with a group attribute set to sales for example: [192.168.1.1] port = 10296 group = sales [192.168.1.2] port = 10345 group = sales [192.168.1.3] port = 19002 group = technical In such a case as above, onlye the first two machines (192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2) will be notified. All you need configured on the machines that need to receive these messages is software like YAC ("Yet Another Callerid program") which you may get from http://sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/ You will only need to configure the broadcast application to connect to the right port. The usage and testing informtion is quite well documented in the accompanying README file. Hope you find it useful! Cheers, Gerald. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users