Dialing DAHDI Trunk and Page Group at same time

[AG_TechSW (Ag Tsw)]

We have installed Freepbx on Prem at a client site.

We are using a DAHDI card as an outbound trunk that is connected to a Valcom bell and paging unit. Any analog phone connected to the Valcom unit that dials 50 is able to connect to the speakers to make announcements.

I was able to set up an outbound route that will allow phones connected to the PBX to accomplish this same thing. The trouble I’m running in to is as follows: I am trying to create some sort of feature code or extension that will allow certain extensions to use this DAHDI trunk and a paging group that I defined in Freepbx at the same time in order to make announcements using both the Valcom unit and the phone speakers simultaneously .

So far I have tried adding the following to extensions_custom.conf:

[from-internal-custom]
include => page-all

[page-all]
exten => 15,1,NoOp(Custom Context: Page Group 60 and Dial Extension 50 in Outbound Route when 15 is dialed)
exten => 15,n,Page(Group:60) ; Replace 60 with the actual group number you want to page.
exten => 15,n,Dial(ValcomPage/50) ; Replace "OutboundRoutename" with your actual outbound route name.
exten => 15,n,Hangup()

The result of this is, I am able to dial 15 to initiate some sort of call but its not reaching the valcom unit or the page group.

Any direction on this would be greatly appreciated!

[dicko]

You would probably need start a ‘conference’ to bridge more than two endpoints. (you have extension 15 , page and valcompage)

[AG_TechSW (Ag Tsw)]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will look in to this.

[david55]

There’s an implied conference in Page().

I wasn’t aware of “group:” and can’t find documentation, and I would have thought that the ValCom dialstring would have started with “DAHDI/”. However, given the right dialstring formats, I would have thought you could just have had Page(dialstring1&dialstring2)