I have a mix of Aastra 6755i / 6757i and PolyCom 501’s. I have accepted I will never get paging to work on the Polycoms. For some reason I can not get paging to work to the Aastra’s either. I dial *80ext# and all that happens is I hear one ring, then Asterisk play the busy signal.
Do I have something configured wrong? The Aastra phones are set up not to auto answer, This might be a reason, but I do not want the phones to automatically go to speaker when someone calls. With the exception of pages.
I believe that you are asking about intercom, not paging. An ‘intercom’ call connects to a single extension, which auto answers in speakerphone mode and allows two-way conversation. A ‘paging’ call connects to a group of phones, all of which automatically play your announcement through their speakers. The called phones cannot reply.