[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail indication for analog phones

[Garth Summey]

I have 20 or so users with analog cordless phones connected via a 24port FXS
box (vegastream).  The vegastream supports voicemail indication via a
studder tone, which is great but I have some users asking for a more
positive (or proactive) indication of voicemail.

I had a couple ideas;

1.If an extension has a voicemail then ring the extension once per hour for
one ring, then hangup.

2.If an extension has a voicemail then ring the extension once per hour and
if answered, play something along the lines of "You have X voicemails,
please dial *97 to listen to your messages."


Something that I have to keep in mind is that some of these phones are in
residential areas, so either of the above actions would need to be time
limited (active from 8:00am to 9:00pm for example).

Has anyone done something like this before, anyone have any better ideas?
Will this have to be executed by Cron (probably because the above examples
are time based)?

Thanks for any input.

Garth
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