Multicast S505 vs P-series options

Sangoma Hardware Phones
1

Hello,

I wanted to upgrade some main phones from S505 to P325 phones. We use multicast to send messages over the lines. The S505 phones have an option (“value:”) on EPM to add the address:

S505 multicast
S505 multicast816×196 26.3 KB

where the P325 do not:

P325 multicast
P325 multicast807×192 21.1 KB

  1. is there a way to add it? It would seem to me that there is a simple solution to just pressing one button.

and IF there isn’t, wouldn’t this defeat one of the purpose of multicast, so that in case the server is not accessible, you can still send a message out?

thank you in advance with any help provided.

2

Did you enable multicast inside the template ?

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3

yes, I have done that. On the P325 phone, the Line key assigned to multicast, when pressed it displays 3 options, Station Upstairs ALL, and from there if I select one of them, the proper devices ring. So it “works properly”, however, on the S505, I could assign a Line Key for each location, and, when pressed, it would just ring, without a secondary menu having to be accessed. Depending on which location I want to page, seems that on the P325 I have to go thru 3 steps before paging.

P325 multicast 1
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4

Ostensibly, yes, this is an issue for EPM, but I can assure that this feature is supported on the Px phones. If you can directly update the P325 config template, it depends on 2 settings in the phone config XML:

  1. multicastpage in the fetched config
  2. an mcastpage setting in the blf_items.xml

For the fetched config – note the id parameter in the broadcast element.

<config>
    <appconfig id="appscreen">
        ...
        <application id="mcastpage" />
        ...
    </appconfig>                                 
    <multicastpage>
        ...
		<broadcast id="1" name="My Paging Group" addr="239.0.0.1" port="32000" codec="PCMU" />
        ...
    </multicastpage>
</config>

Reference that broadcast ID in the blf_item

<config>
    <smart_blf>
        <blf_items>
            <blf_item location="main" index="1" node="" paging="1" app_id="mcastpage" arg="broadcast-id-value"/>
        </blf_items>
    </smart_blf>
</config>

For further reference: