Intercom and Paging

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    • December 9, 2019 at 4:58 pm
    hlev
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    Setting up intercom and paging groups on the PBX, I cant seem to get Yealink phones to autoanswer. Calls are made to the phones as if they where a regular call. I have activated Internal Auto Answer on the extensions and Intercom Allow is set to Enabled on the Phones. Anything else that would need to be enabled to make the phones autoanswer?

    PBX is remote to the phones, only way for me so far to get paging working is setting up multicast IP directly on the phones.

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    • December 9, 2019 at 8:22 pm
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    I’m afraid I don’t have a fix, however I will add I’ve been having the same issue with Grandstream phones with identical symptoms. I got one phone to auto-answer once, but I’ve never been able to reproduce that.

    For the time being, I’ve rolled out multicast paging, however with the lack of an “announcement tone” or a beep, it’s quite startling.

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    • December 9, 2019 at 10:15 pm
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    With factory defaulted Yealinks and using bare minimum auto provisioning from VitalPBX, our Yealinks pick up the SIP intercom/page as expected. 

    With same parameters for Grandstream phones, they will ring and not auto answer the SIP page.

     

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    • December 10, 2019 at 11:09 pm
    Jose Miguel Rivera
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    For using paging and auto-answer on different phone brands you must search for a setting like: “Allow Auto Answer by Call-Info” and enable it, in order that paging works as expected. check the picture attached

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    • December 10, 2019 at 11:49 pm
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    That is P298, which defaults to 0. Set to 1 and now paging works. The warning tone doesn’t play (on Yealinks nor Grandstreams), but not too worried about that just yet. Thanks.

     

     

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    • December 11, 2019 at 12:12 am
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    I have what I believe would be the equivalent on yealink phones which is Intercom Allowed, features.intercom.allow=1 (Enabled) , but still phones appear as not to be getting anything extra in the header as they don’t auto answer at all.

    Paging I can do via multicast ip on the phones directly, but intercom is what I am trying to get working. On freepbx I could do *80+extension number and that would work. *80 is set for hot desking in vital though, *82 which is for paging doesn’t work for me either.

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    • December 11, 2019 at 12:42 am
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    @hiev, just to clarify… You’re attempting *82+extension number? or *82+Paging&Intercom Code?

    If your Paging&Intercom Code has multicast entries, then I assume it’ll use multicast and not SIP to page.

    Validate you’re running the latest Yealink firmware. Factory reset the phone and reregister with VitalPBX as a bare minimum, as features.intercom.allow=1 is the factory default anyways. See if that helps.

     

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    • December 11, 2019 at 5:52 pm
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    @admin-2529

    *82+extension number  and dialing directly to the Paging and Intercom Code, both haven’t autoanswered.

    Will certainly try to upgrade the firmware of the phones to the lastest one and re-test as well.

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    • December 17, 2019 at 5:15 pm
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    Yealink T46s phones, all updated to the latest firmware but still can’t get them to autoanswer the intercom calls.

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    • December 23, 2019 at 5:03 pm
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    It doesn’t appear the system is sending any header to tell the phone to auto answer.

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    • December 23, 2019 at 5:05 pm
    Jose Miguel Rivera
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    Did you enable the Internal Auto-Answer parameter on the extensions under the advanced tab?

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    • December 23, 2019 at 9:00 pm
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    @ing-joserivera26

    Yes internal auto answer is set to intercom on the extensions.

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    • December 23, 2019 at 9:03 pm
    Jose Miguel Rivera
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    Then, VitalPBX’s is sending the headers.

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    • December 23, 2019 at 9:18 pm
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    @ing-joserivera26

    Shouldn’t I see the auto-answer somewhere in the invite using sngrep as well?

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    • December 26, 2019 at 2:18 pm
    Jose Miguel Rivera
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    Did you create a paging and intercom item with its respective dial code?

    picture attached.

     

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    • December 26, 2019 at 3:54 pm
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    Hello @ing-joserivera26, yes the intercom item is created. Here is the screenshot of how its setup.

     

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