<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Message: 18<br>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:02:28 +0200<br>From: "Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR)" <
<a href="mailto:S.Guenther@in-put.de">S.Guenther@in-put.de</a>><br>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] One phone ringing, one phone flashing ?<br>To: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200510182102.29452.S.Guenther@in-put.de">200510182102.29452.S.Guenther@in-put.de</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Hi,<br><br>well, some clients have strange ideas and wishes (at least to my mind).
<br><br>Yesterday I gave a presentation about asterisk to a CEO.<br>At the end he asked me whether asterisk is able to do the following:<br><br>When a call for the CEO comes in, the calling number should be shown on the<br>
display of his phone and the phone of his secretary. The secretary's phones<br>should ring, but at his phone only a light should flash.<br><br>;-)) No, turning off the sound isn't the solution.<br>This restriction should
e.g. only apply, when it is an external call, internal<br>calls should result in ringing both phones.<br><br>I'm not quite sure, whether this could be a feature of asterisk or the phone<br>or both together.<br><br>Does anything of you successfully set up something like this or could
<br>recommend a phone that would help/support it?<br><br>Thanks a lot in advance,<br><br>Stefan<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
The quick and dirty solution to this that I'd put together would
involve a Cisco or Polycom multiline phone, and some careful magic with
ring tones. First, set up two different lines on the boss's phone- one
that you'll use for inbound external calls, the other that you'd use
for inbound internal calls. When a new call came in, the call
would be routed simultaneously (through DIAL(TECH/EXTN&TECH/EXTN2)
) to both the secretary's phone and to the boss's phone external
line. The ringer can be independantly specified on each line for
the Cisco phone- so you specify a custom ringtone that's essentially
silent- record some dead air for his inbound external line.
Since the Cisco displays CID and flashes the red light on ringing, he
gets his flashing light- and it rings as needed at the secretaries desk.<br>
<br>
Cheap, dirty solution- but functional in a short timeframe.<br>
<br>
-pbd.<br>