Right, this is a long shot but here goes.
We're a community radio station and our telephone system is a Norstar Meridian Compact Plus. One of the phones is plugged into our studio desk so that we can route calls through to air. Obviously, we have to have the phone on silent because if it rings while we're on air then that will obviously sound unprofessional.
What I'm wondering is whether there is any way for us to build a software solution that can identify when the phone(/line) is ringing and to alert the user that there is a call. Software wise, we can handle that in terms of building it, but what I'm after is whether there is anywhere we can interface a computer with the PBX in order to get hold of information with regard to when the phone is rining (perhaps a serial port on the hub, or a port on each phone). We can communicate between computers across the network, so it doesn't matter massively if the 'detecting' computer is physically away from the studio.
Hopefully this all makes sense - we aren't particularly rich as a station, and essentially our budget here is around about the zero mark, so any help you can provide would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Just think of the good you'll be doing for our community!!
Dean
