asterisk users - Apr 2003 - Integrating cell phone into Asterisk Extension..

I'd like to integrate a few peoples cell phones into our asterisk system as
we're walking around a data center some days and carrying another cordless
phone just doesn't seem to make sense.  

Forwarding is easy, however once forwarded I want to be able to flash and
transfer back to another party / voice mail / etc. How can this be done? As
far as I know there's no way to generate a flash from a cell phone. I see
the * to hangup options in Dial but those kind of options didn't strike me
as doing the right thing.

I looked a little at the code for * to hangup and although that was pretty
obvious how it worked it wasn't obvious how to use another key (#?) for
flash as that looks like it's elsewhere in the code, not app_dial.


Thanks,

Steve Radich - Colocation / Virtual Dedicated / Dedicated Servers 
BitShop, Inc. - http://www.bitshop.com - $149/month colo special

Just use Dial,Zap/${DESK}&Zap/g1/${CELL}||t

and then # works as a flash

Martin

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Steve Radich wrote:
> I'd like to integrate a few peoples cell phones into our asterisk
system as
> we're walking around a data center some days and carrying another
cordless
> phone just doesn't seem to make sense.
>
> Forwarding is easy, however once forwarded I want to be able to flash and
> transfer back to another party / voice mail / etc. How can this be done? As
> far as I know there's no way to generate a flash from a cell phone. I
see
> the * to hangup options in Dial but those kind of options didn't strike
me
> as doing the right thing.
>
> I looked a little at the code for * to hangup and although that was pretty
> obvious how it worked it wasn't obvious how to use another key (#?) for
> flash as that looks like it's elsewhere in the code, not app_dial.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Radich - Colocation / Virtual Dedicated / Dedicated Servers
> BitShop, Inc. - http://www.bitshop.com - $149/month colo special
>
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This is a thread from Apr. 15 about how to make your
cell phone ring simultaneously with your other
extensions.  The solution was:
> Just use Dial,Zap/${DESK}&Zap/g1/${CELL}||t
I've tried this, and this is the behavior I see:

1)  ${DESK} extensions ring ONCE only (in my case, I
have the TDM400P with analog phones as extensions)

2)  ${DESK} extensions are hung up after just a few
seconds

3) ${CELL} is dialed

Any idea why this would happen?

SO, since this didn't work, I figured I'd ring ${DESK}
for 15 seconds first; if there was no pickup, I'd ring
${CELL} second; and if no pickup there, forward to
voicemail:

[john]
; my very own context!
exten => s,1,Dial(${DESK},20)
exten => t,1,Goto(john-cell,s,1)

[john-cell]
; call my cell if I don't answer
exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/g1/${CELL},20)
; go to voicemail if I don't pick up the cell
exten => t,1,Voicemail,1002
exten => t,2,hangup

This doesn't do what I need, either.  If I don't pick
up ${DESK}, then ${CELL} is dialed.  Problem is, even
if I answer ${CELL}, asterisk doesn't register that I
picked up, and after 20 seconds it hangs up on ${CELL}
and goes to voicemail.  I'm using two X100Ps for FXO
devices, by the way.

Any clues?  If this worked, my life would be very
nice.  :)  Thanks!

    John


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