[Asterisk-Users] sharing a line w/multiple extensions

[Adrian Carter]

Just as an aside... some Sip ATA's come with both Hotline & Warmline
settings with configurable timeouts. Do any software ones offer similar
functionality? Regardless, it could achieve almost that outcome using
Wamline (to auto-enter the meetme-finding-extension that interfaces with
external program to find actual meetme for the conversation to join and
then transfer the call into) and suitably short timeouts. It would have
the corresponding effect of allowing people to 'optionally' join the
call by just picking up and waiting 5 seconds.. or alternatively,
dialling a differnet number and launching a seperate call.

I could picture it working 'almost' like the author wants through the
use of cordless phones/hardphones plugged into an ATA that supports
wamline configured with the below said 'messy in the middle
dealing-with-meetme' program

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Robert La Ferla wrote:
>
>> phones.  When someone picks up (don't know how I can detect this), it 
>> could transfer both parties to a meetme room.  When additional 
>> extensions pickup, they go to the meetme room.  When everyone hangs 
>> up, the call ends.  Can this be done?
>
>
> Probably, but it would take some very creative dialplan programming 
> and an external application to transfer the parties into a meetme 
> room. You will not get 'pickup' behavior on the SIP phones regardless, 
> they will have to press a speed dial button which would attempt to 
> join the meetme.
>
> In other words: you can get there, but it will _not_ behave like a key 
> system, and people will expect it to, so they will be frustrated when 
> it doesn't. We've been down this road many times before, and many 
> Asterisk installations have been taken out because the installers 
> thought they could achieve key system behavior (or retrain the users) 
> but failed. If you want to try, feel free... I'm only telling you what 
> has happened before :-)
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Adrian Carter
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