[Asterisk-Users] Distinctive Ring Cadences

[Chris Shaw]

Cool! I could see this being very useful, for example you could have an IVR
that says something like "Please set the priority of your call, 1 for
urgent, 2 for normal or 3 for low" then if 1, bellcore-r4, if 2 bellcore-r3,
if 1 bellcore-r1!

-Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Milk" <jay at skimmilk.net>
To: "'Chris Shaw'" <chriss at watertech.com>; "'Asterisk Users Mailing List -
Non-Commercial Discussion'" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:42 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Distinctive Ring Cadences


> This is what you're looking for (Sipura SPA-2000):
>
> exten => 201,1,SetVar(ALERT_INFO=bellcore-r1)
> exten => 201,2,Dial(SIP/201,40)
> exten => 301,1,SetVar(ALERT_INFO=bellcore-r4)
> exten => 301,2,Dial(SIP/201,40)
>
> This dials SIP-ext 201 with a different ring-cadence when you dial
> "301".  Sipura Supports bellcore-r1..r8, but even those names (and the
> cadences) are configurable in config.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Shaw [mailto:chriss at watertech.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:59 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Distinctive Ring Cadences
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Meyer" <mjmeyer at gendesign.com>
> > To: "Asterisk Users Group" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:41 PM
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Distinctive Ring Cadences
> >
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I am looking for a way to do priority call ringing. That is when a
> > > caller places a call to another party, they can indicate
> > that the call
> > > is a priority and get a different ring to occur (ring
> > cadence) on the
> > > called parties phone. This would be synonymous to an
> > intercom ring on
> > > a key system.
> > >
> > > After some investigation, I have come across the ability of the GS
> > > BT101 which will ring differently based on the CID. But,
> > this doesn't
> > > allow the caller to control the ring.
> > >
> > > I have uncovered some past discussions
> > >
> > (http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2002-Decembe
> r/006378.html)
> and
> (http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2003-June/000916.html )
> regarding patches to support SIP phones and have no idea if they are
> implemented features or not.
> >
> > If anyone knows, please let me know.
>
> Mike,
>
> I am in no way a SIP expert so please take my comments with a grain of
> salt, but this would require something attached to the INVITE message
> sent to the phone. I know that * (with a little patching) can transmit
> intercom=yes to a SNOM phone indicating that the incoming session wants
> to use the intercom function... If phones have something similar to this
> like ringcadence=3 then it could be passed on... I would imagine that
> the value you pass to the phone is specific to the make and model of
> phone however... Not all phones would use ringcadence= and not all
> models would support '3' for example...
>
> There has been some discussion of this in the bug lists and here on
> list, but I'm not sure as to the status of this yet in *... I know for
> the Cisco phones, there is a variable called ALERT_INFO you can set to
> change the ring cadence but that's the only phone I know of so far...
>
> It would be soooo cool if Digium made their own brand of phones, or at
> least commissioned someone like Sayson to do it for them... then we
> could get a completely *-compatible solution with all of the bells and
> whistles we want... If we want to go with our own phones, then we would
> have to sacrifice the fancy features but at least it would still work!
> Maybe they already have something like this in mind? I would be totally
> behind it! Especially if it spoke IAX! :)
>
>     -Chris
>
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