[Asterisk-Users] Can home/office have same extension

[Race Vanderdecken]

You can use the Dial() command to ring too phones at the same time.

Dial(SIP/phoneA&SIP/PhoneB) Notice the '&' ampersand to separate the
channels.

It is buried in the first couple of paragraphs on the wiki. 
http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+Dial

Dial(type1/identifier1&type2/identifier2&type3/identifier3...,timeout,op
tions,URL) - dial multiple channels

Practically though your client has to make sure no one is answering the
phone in the other location.

Race Vanderdecken

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David
McNett
Sent: 25 October 2004 14:09
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can home/office have same extension

On 25-Oct-2004, Doug Dust wrote:
> Users would like to have a physical phone at home and at the office.
They
> would like calls to their extension routed to whichever phone is
appropriate
> based on their location.

The only difficult part of this is deciding on what mechanism you want
to
use to allow users to identify their present location.  I do a similar
bit
of call routing by having my asterisk box search for the presence of my
bluetooth mobile phone in order to determine where I am located.

(details at http://slacker.com/~nugget/asterisk6.php if you're curious)

Once you've devised such a mechanism it becomes a simple matter to have
asterisk route by building an AGI script which runs in the dialplan.
The
simplest approach would probably be to create an intranet web page where
users
could select their current location.  More complicated could be
monitoring
user activity on their work or home machines.

-- 
David McNett <nugget at slacker.com>
http://slacker.com/~nugget/
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