Hi,
Has anyone thought how to implement group pickup purely in SER ?
Currently we are using Asterisk for all PBX type functions, but want to move to a design where SER handles the dialogue with the sip phones and uses Asterisk purely as a voice mail server.
So has anyone implemented group pickup and hunt groups before ?
Many Thanks
Simon
Hi!
Simon wrote:
So has anyone implemented group pickup and hunt groups before ?
Not yet ;)
Just to throw in some buzzwords here's a few feature requests/definitions. For call pickup I (party C) would like to be able to see incoming calls for party B from party A on my phone so I could pick up the calls. The call itself at that point has nothing to do with any group functionality but would come in handy in any office environment. I believe Snom implemented this based on SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY. What I'm not sure about is the policy to allow subscriptions. Provisioning access-lists on the UASs doesn't scale well.
Group pickup could be both parallel and serial. Parallel is kinda easy. Usually you'd probably define an additional phone number and make all phones belonging to that group REGISTER for that number. Serial is different game and mixed serial/parallel could be considered another ballpark afterall.
I'd like to see the group pickup feature (serial forking, hunt groups, ...) implemented/documented and am eager to help working on it.
Just my $.02, Hendrik