hear local radio on my digital phone

[bmx 1976]

I want to hear the local radio on my digital telephone intercom, as soon as there is a call, the radio will be off automatically and after the call is complete the radio is activate. This option exists on the norstar pabx, but es that this option exists on the pabx siemens hipath 4000,
If yes, what are the detailed steps for (programming and installing the pair of radio)
thank you,

 

[donb01]

In the olden days I think that used to be known as BGM or background music. I know most of the little cheesy hybrid key systems that I worked on over the years could do that, but I don't reacall ever hearing that was possible on the 4K. If it was t would be a fairly simple process I would imagine - set up an analog port as a music device via RCSU, and then have some kind of BGM key on the phone that would turn it on or off. I would think with IP phones if a lot of people used that feature it could add a wee bit of bandwith usage to the network, similar to other streaming services, but probably at a lower quality audio. I just quick looked in my WABE and didn't see a DAR for it, and also looked in FEASU and didn't see a feature either activated or not.

Don Bruechert, Voice Comm Analyst II
CareTech Solutions @ Holy Family Memorial
Manitowoc, WI, USA

 

[sbcsu]

Indeed in the old days 'key system' phones had 4 pairs originally.
One for intercom, one for central office line, one for data to light up keys/lamps, one for data from the main processor board.

Then they went down to 3 pairs with multiplexing and the obvious feature to remove was the background music.
Eventually down to 2 pairs and then to one.
(That was when I stopped repairing phones down to component level !)

What I see today is end users using their computers for listening to voicemail and using it for softphones and email.

Indeed radio itself is finding it hard to get an audience anymore, mostly listened to in cars but even that is under threat with the explosion of listening devices.

Personally almost all of my commercial radio listening is over the internet using applications like 'tunein Radio'