[sudo-discuss] payphone upgrades

[Jake]

what paging system

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, robb wrote:

> great!
> while you're digging in to it & if it's convenient,
> can you enable the  paging system to work from within the building but not
> from without?
>
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> as you may have noticed, the payphone outside omni has been vandalized.
>> the
>> handset is broken.  also, it does not make phone calls and the voice menu
>> doesn't tell you anything.
>>
>> cel and I are changing that.  we are going to add the ability to dial out
>> to
>> phone numbers in the USA for free. (no incoming calls though) and also add
>> a
>> proper voice prompt menu listing the collectives in Omni so that people can
>> actually use the phone to call in.
>>
>> later we will add the ability for people answering the phone inside the
>> omni to
>> press a button to buzz the door open when someone calls them, and we'll add
>> more phones to places besides just sudoroom and CCL.
>>
>> I believe part of the reason that the payphone was vandalized is because
>> people
>> wanted to make calls and the phone didn't work, so they smashed it.  Who
>> knows.
>> Anyway i don't think Omni should shy away from the opportunity to provide
>> something useful like that, seeing as we've already installed a payphone.
>>
>> -jake
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