[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

[Rich Adamson]

> > Well, incoming call handling on SPA-3000 kind of sucks at the
> > moment... but I don't see how it could be configured to ring a bunch
> > of phones anyway. At best it can deliver the call to a single
> > gateway/proxy, and even it really wants to answer the line first and
> > present a second dial tone to the caller before doing so. If the call
> > is just going to go into an Asterisk server for routing to "ring all
> > the phones", then IMO it'd just be easier to skip the SPA-3000
> > completely.
> 
> It isn't hard to make an incoming POTS call to the spa-3k ring all the
> phones.
> 
> 1) set up an extension that rings all the phones.
> 
>     exten => 6666,1,Dial(sip/6001&sip/6002&sip/6003&sip/6004&..sip/N)
> 
> Have the spa3k use an "S0" dialplan:
> 
>     PSTN Line:
>     ...
>     Dial Plan 8:            (S0 <:6666> )
>     ...
>     PSTN Caller Default DP: 8
> 
> Too bad the spa3k software lacks a way to save a dialplan or to diff
> it against factory defaults.  It makes it kind of hard to post a
> definitive recipe.

Ain't that the truth!!! Almost bad enough to write some code to
do that. :(