[joemarshall]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone knows if this is possible:-

I have 6 phones (old analogue phones from the 1970s), and I want to connect them into a self contained little exchange. No external connection needed - I just need 6 phones, all able to connect to each other, and to be able to setup calls from pairs of them (changing pairs) with 3 calls going on at any time.

I need to set them up so that which ones are connected to which, answering etc. can be controlled by a PC - essentially how the system works is I have a holding queue, each time a phone is picked up, it automatically goes into the queue and plays hold music. If there are two phones in the queue, they get connected. At various points, all connected phones get dumped into the holding queue again, and pairs get connected. At these points, I'd be nice if any unconnected phones would ring, because the ringing sound is so nice on these phones.

I'm thinking maybe a GXW-4008 with the phones connected, plus a PC running asterisk might be able to do this? Is it possible to have the GXW-4008 setup so that as soon as you pick up the phone, it is connected to Asterisk? I don't want any dialling, just to be able to auto-connect stuff, under the control of some scripts which I can write myself.

Joe

[idiotsavant]

It is extremely simple to get the 4008 to autodial an asterisk extension. There is a field in the configuration.