Hey there!
first: sorry for my questions may be on novice-level! I'm playing around with my IP Office and Voicemail Pro.
It all works great... BUT...
I have a small alarm system that can dial out through an analog port. (not very exiting so far)
Then I decided, I can use the Handsets as a kind of mobile raid-key (or how do you call this?). So the key on top of those 3725-handsets activates the relais of the ip office and this activates the alarm system input (that again dials out) (done... works... still not really fascinating.)
But when you have voicemail pro - I assume you can do a lot better!!
I was thinking of a VMPro-shortcode (that is dialed by the handset-top-key) that activates a bunch of parallel alarming.
(it can still activate the standard alarm-system via the relais that can make some noise outside... okay - (maybe a silent alarm is better - just a different thought)
BUT aditionally VPMPRO can for example create a kind of instant-"conference" room with the calling phone (open mic!) as the first participant and this conference then is recorded by VMPro for securing evidence and voices etc.
...than (parallel) dial out to a few cellphones and to all those numbers, that can assist in this situation. The first that take the call then gets a recorded wav-file saying "blabla Alarm has been activated manually" (or whatever) and then he/she/they get(s) connected into the ongoing "conference" to hear what might happen.
(One might even think of a second action as to "page" all system-phones in the setup into the conference-room, but only in "mic open" and not playing the conference-sound to their speakers. (Don't think this is possible - speakers on and mic off would be regular paging).
Further (parallel) action COULD BE to sent a few EMails alongside to the outgoing call-alerting, since this sometimes pops up even on tabletts etc., when a cellphone might be in silent mode or whatever.
Of course, an email is NO suitable alerting message, but why not use ALL paths available (since this does not do any harm) and might even be backup-way, just for the case, that the phone-lines are down whereas internet-connection might still be up and running. So just aditionally and alongside to calling out and activating the regular alarm system... (I would even prefer SMS, but I know no way to do this without a special SMS-Gateway).
This whole setup is not intended to be a substitute for any professional-high-security-whatever-assistance, but why not set up a bunch of functions onto a single key, for the case of Raid?
If needed, a well planned alerting-path will surely be better than nothing set up.
Has anyone ever set up anything like this?
What's the best practise for this thoughts / If my ideas are unprofessinal, how would anyone handle this in a more professional scenario? (okay, no guards with vhf-radios are sitting at the front desk in my scenario!
Thanks a lot!
first: sorry for my questions may be on novice-level! I'm playing around with my IP Office and Voicemail Pro.
It all works great... BUT...
I have a small alarm system that can dial out through an analog port. (not very exiting so far)
Then I decided, I can use the Handsets as a kind of mobile raid-key (or how do you call this?). So the key on top of those 3725-handsets activates the relais of the ip office and this activates the alarm system input (that again dials out) (done... works... still not really fascinating.)
But when you have voicemail pro - I assume you can do a lot better!!
I was thinking of a VMPro-shortcode (that is dialed by the handset-top-key) that activates a bunch of parallel alarming.
(it can still activate the standard alarm-system via the relais that can make some noise outside... okay - (maybe a silent alarm is better - just a different thought)
BUT aditionally VPMPRO can for example create a kind of instant-"conference" room with the calling phone (open mic!) as the first participant and this conference then is recorded by VMPro for securing evidence and voices etc.
...than (parallel) dial out to a few cellphones and to all those numbers, that can assist in this situation. The first that take the call then gets a recorded wav-file saying "blabla Alarm has been activated manually" (or whatever) and then he/she/they get(s) connected into the ongoing "conference" to hear what might happen.
(One might even think of a second action as to "page" all system-phones in the setup into the conference-room, but only in "mic open" and not playing the conference-sound to their speakers. (Don't think this is possible - speakers on and mic off would be regular paging).
Further (parallel) action COULD BE to sent a few EMails alongside to the outgoing call-alerting, since this sometimes pops up even on tabletts etc., when a cellphone might be in silent mode or whatever.
Of course, an email is NO suitable alerting message, but why not use ALL paths available (since this does not do any harm) and might even be backup-way, just for the case, that the phone-lines are down whereas internet-connection might still be up and running. So just aditionally and alongside to calling out and activating the regular alarm system... (I would even prefer SMS, but I know no way to do this without a special SMS-Gateway).
This whole setup is not intended to be a substitute for any professional-high-security-whatever-assistance, but why not set up a bunch of functions onto a single key, for the case of Raid?
If needed, a well planned alerting-path will surely be better than nothing set up.
Has anyone ever set up anything like this?
What's the best practise for this thoughts / If my ideas are unprofessinal, how would anyone handle this in a more professional scenario? (okay, no guards with vhf-radios are sitting at the front desk in my scenario!
Thanks a lot!