[asterisk-users] two SIP phones as one line

[Marc Heckmann]

On Sun, 2006-15-10 at 05:09 -0400, Henry.L.Coleman wrote:
> The quirk of your old PBX is in fact exactly what happens when you put any
> two analog phones on the same line. The easiest way to duplicate this is
> to connect another analog phone to your ATA. Some analog phones can
> indicate when the other is on the line and can put a call on hold locally.

In fact no, I should have explained better, but in the old system one
phone was analogue and the other was a multi-line digital Nortel
Meridian phone. The one phone has to be analogue because it interfaces
with a radio broadcast phone patch.

-m

> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am looking to replace a quirk of our old PBX system functionality with
> > asterisk but after searching, archives, wiki, etc.. I cannot figure out
> > how.
> >
> > Here is what I would like to do:
> >
> > PhoneA is a SIP hard phone, phoneB is an analogue phone connected to a
> > SIP ATA. When an incoming call comes in, I would like to ring both
> > phones, but if phoneA is answered first, I would like phoneB to be
> > answered as well and left in a "off hook" state so that when someone
> > picks up the receiver of phoneB, they can hear and participate in the
> > conversation between the calling party and phoneA.
> >
> > I believe I would have to put both phones in a MeetMe conference, but
> > how to I "auto-answer" phoneB when phoneA has answered the call?
> >
> > I suspect that this may not be possible with asterisk, but would like
> > confirmation of that.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -m
> >
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