I'm in the process of setting up my wife's home office with a new B&O phone system. We have, on our home phone line, BeoCom 6000s with the old style black rectangle base, and rely on BT's answerphone service. For my wife's office line (separate line into the house) we've bought BeoCom 6000s (new style) and the new type small BeoLine base. As for an answerphone, I was able to get from my local dealer a mint condition ex-display BeoTalk 1200.
The socket for the 'office' phone line (and broadband for both home and office) is in my study, on the opposite side of the house. So, no problem to plug in the BeoLine base in there, and her BeoCom is in her office paired to the base. So far so good. But, when I come to plug in the BeoTalk, that also has to plug in to the socket and (of course) isn't wireless, so will have to stay in my study. So, my wife will not be able to see or play messages without leaving her office and walking over to the study... which isn't the end of the world, but not super convenient.
I know you can access the BeoTalk remotely, dialing in from an external phone. Is there any way to pick up messages from a phone on the same line?? Or is the only solution to run a phone extension into the office (not ideal, because the phone already travels a distance through the house and line quality is poor :-(
Of course I haven't yet even powered up the BeoTalk, or tried to set it up which I understand is quite complex...