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This is for a counselor in a remote office of a building at a mental health facility.
Here is the desired outcome.

User presses a button that is hidden under a desk.
At that point phones start to ring in another office allerting staff to look at the video monitor for the emergency.
Since this has to be a "silent" trip alarm, I can;t just have it as a button on a phone.
2 thoughts.
Use a PGDAD and just trip the doorphone with a push button switch.

Use a SLT port and have it set to ring down and use a toggle switch.
ANy recommendations?

I would use a toggle switch and an SLT port. Then have that station port ring down to a department group with what ever phones you need in it. Make sure that your department group is not forwarded to voice mail. If you used a push button to trip the door box port of a paging card then it would only sound the door box tones 3 times and the quit.

However, if you wanted to get really creative you could use a door box on a door box port and then under system timers extend how many times the door box rings the programmed phones and then take the speaker out of the door box but leave the mic and then mount the door box under that persons desk. That way when they have a situation they press the button on the door box and it sounds the other room and if someone needed to listen in they could.

I have been pondering the second option in my head as well.
I do have all the stuff to test this, except for the time.(not a bad thing I guess)
Just wanted to flesh it out here. Thanks for the input/confirmation.

Now I haven;t touched a PGDAD or a Doorbox on an i-series in a very long time, and not too sure of the availability, can any one confirm or deny the use of the new (SV8100) PGDADs and doorboxes on an i-series?

well I feel a little dumb and/or old.....

the i-series uses PGDU cards, not the PGAD boxes.