[Asterisk-Users] SPA-941 auto-answer capability

[Trevor G. Hammonds]

Mike Myers wrote on Friday, 20 January 2006 1:56 PM: 

> Hi.  I am thinking about building an asterisk system for a small business 
> and want to be able to page through the phones.  It seems like to do this 
> asterisk needs auto-answer support in the phone.  I know the SPA-841's 
> support this, as do Cisco phones, but I have been unable to determine if 
> the new Cisco/Linksys SPA-941's do.
> 
> Does anyone here have experience with trying to use auto-answer on the 
> SPA-941, or a pointer to some documentation that talks about this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike

Mike,

If you are running version 1.2 or SVN trunk up to revision 8059, you can
make the SPA-941 auto-answer on the speaker phone by adding a dialplan entry
like this before the Dial command:

exten => 1234,1,SIPAddHeader(Call-Info:\;answer-after=0)

If you have Polycom phones, you may also do this, but it requires a little
more effort.  Check the wiki (www.voip-info.org) for more information.

		Sincerely,
		Trevor Hammonds