Paging on Yealink phones

Paging lets you speak through the speaker of a group of Yealink phones at once, for example to announce a visitor in reception. It uses multicast on your local network, so it doesn’t go through the PBX and doesn’t use a call.

How it works

• Phones that should hear pages listen on a multicast address and channel. Set this on every receiving phone.
• Phones that send pages have a Paging key for one group, or a Paging List key to choose from several groups.
• A group is a multicast address, port and channel. The sending phone and the listening phones must use the same three values.

Note

All the phones must be on the same network (subnet). For more complex networks, ask whoever manages your network for the multicast address and port to use.

Before you start

• The IP address of each phone (press OK on the phone) and its web interface password. The default username and password are both admin.
• A multicast address and port for paging. On a simple network you can try 224.0.1.75:10008.
• A channel number for each group, from 0 to 30. For example, channel 1 for everyone and channel 5 for Sales.

1. Set up the listening phones

Note

Menus can change between versions. If a label is different, check the vendor’s own help.

On every phone that should hear pages:

1. Sign in to the phone’s web interface and go to Directory › Multicast IP.
2. Under Multicast Listening, fill in a row for each group the phone should hear:
   • Listening Address: the multicast address and port, for example 224.0.1.75:10008
   • Label: the group name, for example All
   • Channel: the group’s channel
3. Click Confirm.

2. Add a paging key to a sending phone

For a key that pages one group:

1. Go to Dsskey › Line Key and choose a free key.
2. Set Type to Paging.
3. Enter the multicast address and port in Value, a Label, and the channel in Extension.
4. Click Confirm.

3. Or add a paging list (several groups)

A paging list suits a reception phone that pages different groups.

1. Go to Dsskey › Line Key, choose a free key, set Type to Paging List, enter a Label and click Confirm.
2. Go to Directory › Multicast IP and scroll to Paging List.
3. For each group, enter the Paging Address (address and port), a Label and the Channel.
4. Click Confirm.

Make a page

1. Press the Paging key, or press the Paging List key and choose a group.
2. After the short tone, speak. Every phone listening to that group plays your voice.
3. Hang up, or press End Call, to finish.

Check it works

Page a group and check that each listening phone plays it. If a phone stays silent, check that its listening address, port and channel exactly match the sending key.

Related

• BLF and speed dial keys