[asterisk-users] Paging, Polycom and whispers

[Danny Nicholas]

You can send an IM to the phone with a text message.  Assuming that the
phone has more than 1 line and at least one is open, the call should go
through without effecting the existing call.  To do this from the dialplan,
you could set up something like this:

Exten => 411,1,Dial(SIP/100,1)
Exten => Sendtext(You have a call on park 701)
Exten -> hangup(}

This also assumes that the polycom has presence enabled.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Dave Fullerton
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:45 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Paging, Polycom and whispers

Mike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a way to page a Polycom phone that is already in use (if, of
> course, the call isn't on speakerphone already)?
> 

I've never been able to find a way. Any attempt I made either put the 
existing call on hold to auto-answer the page or the page just rang at 
the phone and then caused other issues.

I'm not sure you'll have any luck with other SIP phones either. What 
you're asking it to do is accept two simultaneous calls but put each 
call on a different listening device (handset/speakerphone in this case).

The closest you might get is to rig a dialplan that would use chanspy in 
whisper mode to play the page through the current audio device if the 
phone is busy. I don't know how to go about doing that however.

-Dave

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