[A*UG] Overhead paging solutions?

[Chris Tooley]

If the current overhead speakers are used via a telephony interface and
FXO or FXS channel should give you what you need (it's unlikely that
it's a digital channel).  If it's an audio input, like speaker jacks,
you can use a sound card and OSS/ALSA as a channel as well.

Once you've got the channel, you can use it just like you do the Meetme.
But more likely you'll want to dial the number, have that
context/extension open an OSS/ALSA channel and have them start talking.
Otherwise if you need record and them playback I can show you some
examples of how I did that for recording prompts that seems to work.

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:21 -0500, Carey Jung wrote:
> We're currently doing intra-office paging via Meetme conferences and the
> auto-answer feature available in Polycom phones.  You dial a paging
> extension, say something into it, hang up, and it broadcasts the message to
> all the phones.  Works great so far.
> 
> We have a prospect who also needs overhead paging via their existing paging
> speakers.  Does anybody have any experience with such systems or
> recommendations on how to integrate Asterisk with overhead speakers?
> 
> Thanks,
> Carey
> 
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