[VoIP] Additional Asterisk Features

[Mark Rudholm]

Lee Spenadel wrote:
> I've implemented Voice Mail and Music on Hold.  Both are very easy to use.
> If you are on a call and flash the hookswitch on the caller, they should get
> MOH.  I'm using the Private Line Automatic Ringdown feature for my front
> door phone. It's set to ring to my office line when someone goes off-hook.

Lee,

How did you implement the ringdown?  I did it by just using the "s"
extension in my doorphone's context and am just curious if you've
done it some other way.

I have it ring the phones in the house, my office, and my cellphone.

One thing I did discover in setting it up was that my Sipura ATAs
don't send CPC on outgoing calls, they only send it on incoming calls,
so when someone activated the doorphone (a Bogen ADP1) it wouldn't
automatically hang up when the called party disconnected.  Fortunately,
the ZAP channels and the IAXy ATA send CPC regardless of who originated
the call.

The doorphone is really handy.  Even the friends of mine who fail to
understand my fascination with telephones concede that point...

-Mark