[Asterisk-Users] Announcement only Devices that work with Asterisk for Dedicated 24/7 Conferencing

[C F]

OK, sorry if thats what he wanted, then what I suggest to use a paging
system, will sure work. In fact any paging system will work, even one
that doens't allow input. Just look it up on the wiki.


On 12/7/05, Rusty Dekema <rdekema at gmail.com> wrote:
> Huh?
>
> I think the original poster might be talking about the opposite of what you
> are talking about. I understood him to mean that he wants a device that
> stays connected to an Asterisk extension and plays any audio received over
> the connection through a loudspeaker. I don't see how a cassette player
> comes into this at all.
>
> ---
>
> Following along the lines of the previous suggestion, you could use an ATA
> in Hotline mode with an analog speakerphone, but the phone would have to be
> designed in such a manner that it if it were hung up upon or disconnected
> from the ATA, it would go right back off-hook and directly into speakerphone
> mode without intervention. I do not know of any analog speakerphones that
> will do this, but someone else might.
>
> Unfortunately, I also do not know of any SIP or IAX products that would do
> this out of the box. However, it would be very easy to modify an open-source
> SIP or IAX softphone to do what you want. However, that may or may not be
> practical for your situation. If you really want this in a small "appliance"
> form factor, you could probably design and build a device that would run a
> softphone on an embedded CPU, but I suspect that even Morgan Stanley's IT
> department might not want to get into that scene :).
>
> -Rusty
>
>
> On 12/7/05, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For starters, an old fashioned cassette player that holds the button
> > in with auto reverse will do, since when the power is out it will
> > still play it. Connect that to an ATA (radio shack sells a plug that
> > will connect to a phone line and take the input of a regular headphone
> > jack to the phone line). Take any ata and configure it as a hotline,
> > put the cassette player with a regulare analog phone on the port of
> > the ata, make sure the phone is off hook, so that the ata makes the
> > hot line call, and viola you are in asterisk. Of course other ways to
> > do it is: to use an external pager (bogan makes one), that allows
> > external MOH, and that uses a FXO port that you make sure asterisk
> > always keeps off hook.
> >
> >
>
>
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