[asterisk-users] Sending text to a phone that's no in-use ...

[Gordon Henderson]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Rob Schall wrote:

> If they're polycom 501s or higher, you could have each phone use a
> different homepage. Those pages could be loaded dynamically (say in php)
> and then you could just store the "message" to display in a database.
> Probably easiest to maintain and create an interface for.

Snom's or Grandstream GXP2000's I'm afraid... Sending text to them while 
in a call works fine (although reading the text on the Snom was 
"challenging" until I'd worked out I needed to reprogram one of the 
function keys :)

Thanks,

Gordon


>
> Rob
>
> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>
>> Anyone know if it's possible to send a line of text to a phone that's
>> not currently in-use?
>>
>> What I want is:
>>
>>   SendText(SIP/101, "Hello World")
>>
>> but that doesn't exist ...
>>
>> I'm after an application where someone (say a receptionist) can send
>> one of a small set of pre-defined messages, so that when someone next
>> looks at their phone it might say: "Wife Called", "Check Email",
>> "collect printout", and so on, rather than leaving voicemail, but I'm
>> not sure it's actually possible...
>>
>> Failing that, I suppose I could just dump a pre-canned audio file &
>> the appropriate header file in the voicemail spool.. but I'd rather
>> just send a message to the phone.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gordon
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