asterisk users - Jul 2004 - Directed Call Pickup

In the list I found some messages that *8 doesn't work so well. Is there 
any possibility to create a extention that you can call, and if you are 
fast enough, pick up a number? (Also if you are outside your callgroup)

like

pseudo code:

exten => 888, 1, EnterPhoneNumber()
exten => 888, 2, EnterPass()
exten => 888, 3, TransferCallToThisPhone()
exten => 888, 103, Invalid()

I'm interested in how to do the 'TransferCallToThisPhone' procedure.


Stefan

Hi everyone,

	I have been trying to get call pickup to work and am having success
with group pickup by setting the callgroup and pickupgroup in the
zapata.conf and sip.conf files. However, I cannot get directed call
pickup to work. 

According to the little documentation
(http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=PBX+Call+Pickup) that I
found on the subject, the user is supposed to be able to enter the call
pickup extension and then enter the extension to pick up.

Basically *8 doesn't work. Is there some configuration that I am
missing? Do I need to define a new call pickup extension in
extensions.conf that answers the call on the remote extension?

Any direction will help.

FYI; Another caveat I have also run into is that a simple reload after
changing the sip.conf and zapata.conf files did not always pick up the
new group settings and allow me to do group call pickup. Anyone else run
into this? I had to stop and start *.

Thanks much,
Mike Meyer

Is anyone successfully using directed call pickup with asterisk?

*8<exten> to only pick up that persons extension if the phone is
ringing.. It says in the wiki asterisk supports it but I can not get
it to work..
Thanks


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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Matthew Marlowe wrote:
> Is anyone successfully using directed call pickup with asterisk?
> 
> *8<exten> to only pick up that persons extension if the phone is
> ringing.. It says in the wiki asterisk supports it but I can not get
> it to work..
You could use app_intercept from
  http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0002692

Peter

Is anyone using directed call pickup?

*8+<exten> to only pick up an extension if the phone is ringing. The
wiki says asterisk supports it but it seems it does not work. What am I
doing wrong?


Thanks

>Is anyone using directed call pickup?
>
>*8+<exten> to only pick up an extension if the phone is ringing. The
>wiki says asterisk supports it but it seems it does not work. What am I
>doing wrong?
>
>  
>
Directed call pickup for a specific extension is not currently part of 
Asterisk CVS. It is
available as an add-on app see:
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0002692

Hi All

I am having problems with Directed Call Pickup in Asterisk 1.2.1

If extension 100 is ringing, a user at another extension is supposed to 
be able to dial *8100 and pickup the call to 100.  It isn't working for 
me and I cannot figure out why.

I have in features.conf:

pickupexten = *8

Kind Regards
Garth


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Garth van Sittert
> Sent: 02 February 2006 16:47
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Directed Call Pickup
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I am having problems with Directed Call Pickup in Asterisk 1.2.1
> 
> If extension 100 is ringing, a user at another extension is supposed
to
> be able to dial *8100 and pickup the call to 100.  It isn't working
for
> me and I cannot figure out why.
> 
> I have in features.conf:
> 
> pickupexten = *8
> 

I am running 1.2.1 and works for me.


exten => _86.,1,Macro(directedPickup) ;  Direct Pickup

[macro-directedPickup]
exten => s,1,Pickup(${MACRO_EXTEN:2});


Remember that the *8 in your features.conf has nothing to do with direct
pickup.  So in your case try replacing _86. with _*8. but I don't know
if that will cause problems.

HTH

Alex

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I think that this line of context  *"exten =>
_8.,1,Pickup(${EXTEN:1})"* might be the issue.  Starting with an underscore
before the 8 states that you want to perform pattern matching and the period
after the 8 means wildcard. I think if you remove those two special characters
your issue will be solved.

Regards,
Steve  Cayona
 

Show Features produces:
    Builtin Feature           Default Current
    ---------------           ------- -------
    Pickup                    *8      *8
    Blind Transfer            #       #
    Attended Transfer                 *2
    One Touch Monitor
    Disconnect Call           *       *

    Dynamic Feature           Default Current
    ---------------           ------- -------
    (none)

    Call parking
    ------------
    Parking extension   :   700
    Parking context     :   parkedcalls
    Parked call extensions: 701-720



in extension.conf I have:
    exten => _8.,1,Pickup(${EXTEN:1})



When I dial 812, in the CLI I can see:
    Executing Pickup("SIP/29-707f", "12") in new stack


Any thoughts?

Kind Regards
Garth