[cisco-voip] Poor Man's Intercom

[Ryan Ratliff]

For one phone this is entirely possible.  Your original example  
however included multiple phones going offhook and hearing the prompt  
at the same time.   When you call to a shared line or broadcast line  
group only the first phone to answer will get the call.   Outside of a  
conference bridge all calls are one-to-one, not one-to-many.

What you are talking about with multiple phones is the same as a  
broadcast page.   You will be better off sending on a multicast source  
and using the XML SDK to trigger the phones to listen to the multicast  
stream.   As someone else pointed out there are limitations to how  
many outbound calls you can make at a time.  Alternatively you could  
start a Meetme conference from the IVR (maybe?)  and use CTI control  
of the phones to make them dial into the conference.

-Ryan

On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Jim Reed wrote:

So you’re also saying that there is no method of having a script dial  
an extension and play a prompt when that person answers?  Prompts can  
only be played for calls “inbound” to the script?

Thank You...
-- 
Jim Reed
Technology Wrangler
Swift Communications, Inc.
970-683-5646 (Direct)
775-772-7666 (Cell)

“Not only is it not right.
It’s not even wrong.”
        The Pauli Proverb
         Wolfgang Pauli


On 11/10/09 3:39 PM, "VoiceNoob" <voicenoob at gmail.com> wrote:

The hunt group is working as designed. There is now way to do what you  
are doing in the current versions of CUCM.



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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_configuration_example09186a00807f3301.shtml

Has anyone tried this?  Any way to make it work with multiple phones  
simultaneously.  I tried putting a different extension — 32200 through  
32203 — on four (4) separate phones.  I set the extension on each  
phone to Auto Answer with Speakerphone.  I then put those phones in a  
Line Group with a Distribution Algorithm of Broadcast.  I then set up  
a Hunt Pilot that points to that Line Group.  When I dial the Hunt  
Pilot, the first phone in the group answers, the other three (3)  
disconnect — aka hang up — and then the phone that answered goes to a  
fast busy after a few seconds.  If I dial the 32200 through 32203  
individually, the “intercom” effect works as it should.  Anyone know  
of a way to make this work on multiple phones simultaneously or is it  
just not doable.  Just another of those weird thoughts that creep into  
this old and feeble mind now and then.  I’m also thinking of writing  
scripts that step through extensions with pre-recorded emergency  
warnings like “Evacuate the building immediately”, etc., so when the  
route point is dialed it touches every phone in the building.  Anyone  
done anything similar.  Thank You.
-- 
Jim Reed
Technology Wrangler
Swift Communications, Inc.
970-683-5646 (Direct)
775-772-7666 (Cell)

“Not only is it not right.
It’s not even wrong.”
       The Pauli Proverb
         Wolfgang Pauli



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