Overhead Paging
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Overhead Paging
Problem
You're envious of the paging system at the hospital. You know, where you hear, "Doctor Kildare, you have a call on line two!"
Solution
Asterisk allows you to declare the local sound card as the technology argument for the Dial() application.
Discussion
The syntax is simple. Just use "console/dsp" as the technology argument for Dail(). Plug your sound system (stereo, overhead announcing system, etc.) into the sound card on the Asterisk machine.
The line in your dialplan might look like:
exten => _333,1,Dial(console/dsp,20,A(loud-gong))
where "20" indicates a twenty second ring-timeout and "A" tells Asterisk to play the loud-gong sound file from the speakers before connecting the caller to the speakers.
One word of warning if you use this feature at home: you can quickly lose serious amounts of spouse-points if a anyone abuses the feature.
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- By: Tim Kramer
