[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail indication for analog phones

[Jerry Jones]

Any CLASS MWI should also work. I do believe there is support at  
least on the Digium cards, and I think the Vega also. I am just  
installing a Vega now and will try to verify, but it might be awhile  
before I can.


On May 7, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Garth Summey wrote:

> 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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