OK, sorry if thats what he wanted, then what I suggest to use a paging system, will sure work. In fact any paging system will work, even one that doens't allow input. Just look it up on the wiki.
On 12/7/05, Rusty Dekema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Huh? > > I think the original poster might be talking about the opposite of what you > are talking about. I understood him to mean that he wants a device that > stays connected to an Asterisk extension and plays any audio received over > the connection through a loudspeaker. I don't see how a cassette player > comes into this at all. > > --- > > Following along the lines of the previous suggestion, you could use an ATA > in Hotline mode with an analog speakerphone, but the phone would have to be > designed in such a manner that it if it were hung up upon or disconnected > from the ATA, it would go right back off-hook and directly into speakerphone > mode without intervention. I do not know of any analog speakerphones that > will do this, but someone else might. > > Unfortunately, I also do not know of any SIP or IAX products that would do > this out of the box. However, it would be very easy to modify an open-source > SIP or IAX softphone to do what you want. However, that may or may not be > practical for your situation. If you really want this in a small "appliance" > form factor, you could probably design and build a device that would run a > softphone on an embedded CPU, but I suspect that even Morgan Stanley's IT > department might not want to get into that scene :). > > -Rusty > > > On 12/7/05, C F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For starters, an old fashioned cassette player that holds the button > > in with auto reverse will do, since when the power is out it will > > still play it. Connect that to an ATA (radio shack sells a plug that > > will connect to a phone line and take the input of a regular headphone > > jack to the phone line). Take any ata and configure it as a hotline, > > put the cassette player with a regulare analog phone on the port of > > the ata, make sure the phone is off hook, so that the ata makes the > > hot line call, and viola you are in asterisk. Of course other ways to > > do it is: to use an external pager (bogan makes one), that allows > > external MOH, and that uses a FXO port that you make sure asterisk > > always keeps off hook. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
