fpbx-stuff/chimes

Noon Chimes

This is a simple setup to make your phone system page a page group and play a chime at noon in any number of timezones.

Requirements

• FreePBX version 15 or greater
• A chime sound file
• A page group set up in FreePBX
• A little bit of Linux knowledge
• Root access to your PBX

Installation

1. Choose a chime sound and upload it to FreePBX through Admin > System Recordings.
2. Using Admin > Config Edit, modify extensions-custom.conf, Paste the contents of custom-context.conf into the file, then click save.
3. Set up a Custom Dest in Admin > Custom Destinations. Set the target to chimes,s,1 and give it any description. Go ahead and click the Apply Config button.
4. These next steps will require you to SSH into your PBX. Set up the script chimes.sh in /root/chimes.sh and make it executable with chmod +x /root/chimes.sh.
5. Set up crontab with the following line: 0 * * * * /root/chimes.sh.

Configuration

There really isn't any, other than modifying the shell script to set what timezones you want to make chime at noon. If you want to trigger the chime at a specific time, use cron to run /var/lib/asterisk/bin/callback "page-group-number-here" chimes.s.1 0 0 "Ik5vb24gQ2hpbWUiIDw+" at the desired time. I think you should be able to look up how to set up a cron job for that.

If you want to change the Caller ID it uses, base64 encode the callerid string you want to use and replace that at the end of the callback command. A valid caller id looks like "NAME" <NUMBER>, or just "NAME" or <NUMBER>. The base64 encoded string for "Noon Chime" <1234> is Ik5vb24gQ2hpbWUgPDEyMzQ+.