As explained on the wiki page http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Cisco+7940-7960+auto-answer+config you don't just do a dial(phone1&phone2) you put all the phones through to a conference, the one drawback of this is that you have to set one of the cisco's lines to autoanswer, which you probably won't want most of the time. If you've got a 7960 this probably won't worry you too much (who needs 6 lines anyway?), but on a 7940 it could be a pain.
I can't see any way around this without modifying the cisco firmware (unless you could do something cunning with the cisco phone's telnet interface?). HTH Ed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry Devito Sent: 17 October 2004 22:30 To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sending broadcasts to all phones? I am in the process of writing an app to do this with Cisco phones7940/60. The feature on most PBX's is Page Groups, This allows paging through the speaker phones. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 5:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sending broadcasts to all phones? The Polycom phones will do this. Use the meetme feature. It's well documented on the Wiki. John David J Carter wrote: > I have a Panasonic switch here and it a paging system on the switch. > > It will output the page message to all phones and also to an RCA (Phono) > socket on the side of the switch to a PA amplifier if required to drive a > 100Volt line system around a building. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Walsh > Sent: 16 October 2004 22:28 > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sending broadcasts to all phones? > > > Kristian Kielhofner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Stan Brinkerhoff wrote: >> >>>A friend of mine has a real panasonic PBX setup at his house, and is >>>able to pick up the phone, dial an extension, and it broadcasts what he >>>says over every phone in his house without the phones having to be >>>picked up. What is this feature called? >>> >>>Would it be possible to set this up with Asterisk given the appropriate >>>phones? (Cisco?) >>> >> >>This can be done with Cisco phones and 6.x or 7.x firmware. It is on >>the wiki. >> > > Well, actually, it's not on the WIKI. The WIKI would help you set up > a Cisco phone to auto-answer, but that's not all he needs here. > The problem is that if you dial "phone1&phone2" then the first phone > to auto-answer will receive the "broadcasted" call. The other phones > in the list will not hear anything. Well, that'd be what I'd expect > to happen with Dial(), anyway. > > Stan seems to be asking for a system where the caller hears a ring tone > until all phones (auto)answer, and is then able to speak to them all at > once. It'd be kind of like an "enforced conference call", but with one > speaker and multiple listeners, and with all audio received from the > called phones thrown away rather than distributed. > > It could be done, but would need a new Dial()-based application to do > it, I think. Perhaps there's an existing facility that can be used to > to do this. If there is then I can't think of it. > > -- > _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ > _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ K e v i n W a l s h > _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users