[Asterisk-Users] Sending broadcasts to all phones?

[John Baker]

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: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On 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 [kris at krisk.org] 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.
> 
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