Asterisk - multiple phones connecting same ext

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

I’ve been trying to setup Asterisk to allow connecting to a single ext. from different phone/locations.

The best example if for mobile workers (roadwarriors) to have the flexibility of having a hard phone (SPA942) in the office and soft phone while on the road.

I would prefer to avoid using call groups to do this.

Thanks

mario

2

You could try ring both phones with Dial(hardphone&softphone).

Regards.

Marco Bruni

3

Wouldn’t I have to use different ext. in order to do that?

4

No, you don’t need to.

Regards.

Marco Bruni

5

I must be missing something then, I can only only register one sip phone at any given time. When I connect the softphone (x-lite) the SPA942 does not ring (disconnects) and when I disconnect the softphone the hardware phone needs to reconnect before it can ring.

Let me know what I’m missing

Thanks

Mario

6

Register the phones with two different accounts, call one hardphone and the other softphone, so in sip.conf define two “friends”, “hardphone” and “softphone”, then in extensions.conf, in the appropriate context, define the extension 222, reload and then call this extension to call both phones:

exten=>222,1,Dial(SIP/hardphone&SIP/softphone)

Regards.

Marco Bruni.