[asterisk-users] Sending text to a phone that's no in-use ...

[Rob Schall]

Yes they do. If you download the newest boot rom, they sure do have it
now. I was surprised myself when I saw the feature, but we use it on all
of our 501s here. The resolution isn't pretty, but it works. :)

Rob

Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC wrote:
> I think you mean 60x not 50x.  The polycom 501s don't have the
> microbrowser.
>
> Rob Schall wrote:
>> If they're polycom 501s or higher, you could have each phone use a
>> different homepage. Those pages could be loaded dynamically (say in php)
>> and then you could just store the "message" to display in a database.
>> Probably easiest to maintain and create an interface for.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>> Anyone know if it's possible to send a line of text to a phone that's
>>> not currently in-use?
>>>
>>> What I want is:
>>>
>>>   SendText(SIP/101, "Hello World")
>>>
>>> but that doesn't exist ...
>>>
>>> I'm after an application where someone (say a receptionist) can send
>>> one of a small set of pre-defined messages, so that when someone next
>>> looks at their phone it might say: "Wife Called", "Check Email",
>>> "collect printout", and so on, rather than leaving voicemail, but I'm
>>> not sure it's actually possible...
>>>
>>> Failing that, I suppose I could just dump a pre-canned audio file &
>>> the appropriate header file in the voicemail spool.. but I'd rather
>>> just send a message to the phone.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Gordon
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