[Aaug] First post, and a question

[Joseph Blake]

Greetings from sunny Birmingham.  I joined this list at the  
suggestion of someone on the Birmingham Area Linux Users mailing list  
and hope to both be a help to others on the list and a sponge to soak  
up all of your knowledge :D

ok, so, the reason I joined the list at this point in time was to ask  
a real question. We're rolling out asterisk at our small business to  
take over for a Bellsouth hosted voicemail box, so that we can each  
have our on voicemail boxes. Our setup is 2 Linksys SPA3102 ATAs,  
which have 1FXS/1FXO each. We have two analog lines coming into  
those, and asterisk is answering all calls that come in and providing  
a small IVR tree. We are connecting these to a two line cordless  
phone system, which is our existing setup. When a call comes in, they  
choose a dept, which right now just rings all phones.

Here's my dilemma. Right now when I want to ring all the phones, I'm  
ringing SIP/phone1 and SIP/phone2 which translate to lines 1 and 2 on  
the cordless phone system and some other SIP channels which translate  
to softphones running on a couple laptops.  The downside to this is  
that one call rings both lines on the analog phones. This is how I'd  
like it to work:

User chooses extension to call
Ring SIP/phone1 + all other SIP phones if SIP/phone1 is avail
otherwise
Ring SIP/phone2 + all other SIP phones

One thing I want to also avoid, however, is having the first diaplan  
ring all the softphones but not SIP/phone1, and not ring SIP/phone2  
until the first one times out.

I know chanisavail won't really work since these are SIP channels  
(I've tried), so I'm hoping someone has a solution for this, and  
hopefully I've communicated my problem well :)

Thanks,

Joseph