[Asterisk-Users] New Application: Broadcast

[Begumisa Gerald M]

Hi Steve,

      On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Steve Daniels wrote:
    > What excatly does it do? What messages does it send out? And what
    > software needs to be configured to listen for these messages?

Bret explained mostly what the software does in a basic use case where you
would like a nice window to pop up with say the caller id details of an
incoming call.  With this same software, you may "selectively" broadcast
messages for example, you may only want the sales crew to see information
about a given caller and not other groups.  For example:

[sales-context]
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,Broadcast(This is a sales call|group=sales)
exten => s,3,Dial(whatever)

In such a case, you will need to have configured the "sales computers"
with a group attribute set to sales for example:

[192.168.1.1]
port = 10296
group = sales

[192.168.1.2]
port = 10345
group = sales

[192.168.1.3]
port = 19002
group = technical

In such a case as above, onlye the first two machines (192.168.1.1 and
192.168.1.2) will be notified.

All you need configured on the machines that need to receive these
messages is software like YAC ("Yet Another Callerid program") which you
may get from http://sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/

You will only need to configure the broadcast application to connect to
the right port.

The usage and testing informtion is quite well documented in the
accompanying README file.  Hope you find it useful!


Cheers,
Gerald.