How to set up home PBX or home phone system?

Question

I want to set up a system in the house where the phone answers and says something like "press 1 for the family room, press 2 for the basement" or something similar. How do I set this up? What do I need to buy?

Answer 1

Two of the quickest systems would be to grab a Panasonic TA-824 or an Avaya Partner ACS with a ASA/DXD card. Both sytems would answer the phone and present a menu to the caller as you suggest.



The street price of the 824 with the included DISA card is about $250, but you need one display phone to record the menus, about $125 or so. The Partner runs slightly more as the DXD card is usually about $250 on top of the system price.



Once you get the system in your hands, you'll need to make sure each location you want to reach has either a dedicated cable running to it, or enough pairs in your house cable to make it work. Both of the above systems require 2 dedicated pairs per system phone or one pair for a standard phone.



As an alternative, there's a system called the X-Blue X-16 that uses one digital pair for 4 phones. It is a tad pricey, but you would not have to rewire an existing house.



We had a customer that used the RCA system to cover an upstairs and downstairs office in a residence. It is ugly, the sets have a huge footprint, and the cordless is mated to the set. http://www.rca4business.com/products/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=18

Answer 2

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Answer 3

you probably need to rewire your entire homes telephone wiring, as most residential phone wiring is run in a loop, or from jack to jack, while if you are thinking about using a PBX or phone system you would need to have home runs for each extension...



so you would need a box of CAT 3 or CAT 5 wire...



you would also need a 66 block or 110 block to terminate the wiring..



you would need some cross connect wiring..



you would need to purchase a phone system with an IVR...



assuming that you do not want to have wired proprietary phones all throughout your home you would need a system that you could connect a regular analog phone up to..



seriously for most purposes a phone system for residential use is overkill... the cost is far greater then any possible benefit that you might get... besides how would any of your callers know where in your home you were to call the family room or basement extensions?



then there is the fact that you probably are thinking that you will be able to make multiple calls at the same time while someone is on the phone - which would be wrong unless you got multiple phone lines....



a much better option would be to just get 2 lines and a 2 line phone...



however there are some options... there are some phones such as the AT&T 10x0 series of phones (1040, 1070, 1080) that have many features of a phone system... the 1080 is supposed to have an IVR built into it... this method would not require you to have to rewire all of your phone jacks... but it would not provide all of the options that a phone system could, such as a door phone... (although you could always pick up something from viking and connect it to one of the additional lines on the phone - as long as you do not have 4 phone lines) but for the phone system features to work, all of your phones would have to be compatible with each other... which rules out cordless phones (at least if you want them to interact with the additional features that these phones provide)

Answer 4

This is too easy, get a VOIP/SIP phone, I like the grandstream gxp1400 (under $50). Then I would recommend using ring roost to setup service - they have really good prices.

Answer 5

you will want a diverter for this... it would not artwork as a decision back characteristic, yet you call line a million at your place, enter a password then get get admission to to line 2 to call out... there additionally are 3 way calling diverters the place you call enter the password, and it will click over, dial out the variety you desire, then connect the call out of your place line as 3 way calling... a diverter is extremely costly... yet will do what you desire... yet another determination would be a PBX at your place which you will set up with diverse strains, and be waiting to dial out any gadget that makes use of caller identification to be sure your identification is insecure for the reason that CID would properly be spoofed...