Paging and Intercom

Information

Paging lets you, with phones that support it, do a 'Page' - you dial a number, and all the phones in the group pick up automatically, go into hands free, and play through their speaker what the caller is saying. This is very useful in a small office environment ("Pizza is at reception!"). To add a paging group, simply put in the Paging group number - this is the number that people will dial to page the group, and the list of devices, one per line, that are to be paged.
Note that Intercom is not currently supported

Supported Phones

Snom Phones

To enable paging, under 'Advanced', select 'Enable Intercom', and 'Dialog-Info Call Pickup'

GXP-2000 Phones

Select the line you use to register to the FreePBX machine, and enable 'Allow Auto Answer by Call-Info' and 'Turn off speaker on remote disconnect' (otherwise it will beep with a busy tone eternally when the page is finished)

Aastra 480i

Appears to support it out of the box.

Aastra 9133i

Appears to support it out of the box. Tested with FreePBX v2.1.1 and Aastra firmware v1.4

Polycom 301, 501?, 601

You MUST provision the phone from a FTP server to load the Polycom config files, then edit sip.cfg, search for "alertInfo" and set "voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.value" to equal "Ring Answer". Now reboot your phone to load the new config option.
for example:
<alertInfo voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.value="Ring Answer" voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.class="4"/>

Uniden UIP200

Does NOT support auto answer as of firmware 4.77

Swichvoice IP10S

Appears to support it out of the box, I updated the firmware before testing this feature. ( IP10 SP v1.0.1 (Build 3)

Asterisk Console

To use the asterisk console as a paging extension (for example, if you have overhead speakers plugged into your sound card), add a new custom extension with "console/dsp" as the dialstring. You'll have to assign this an extension number, but then you can use it in the paging module. Note that as of FreePBX 2.2 (currently in svn) there is special handling for this extension type, and a beep will be played when it first answers.

Other phones

Please fill in information for any other phone you have working.