asterisk users - May 2003 - FW: NEWBIE: HOWTO make asterisk only accept calls when extension is picked up

Hi Ben,

just dont _answer_ the call before you call the extension:

[capiin]
exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/phoneip,20)
exten => s,2,VoiceMail(u1234)
exten => s,3,Hangup
exten => s,102,VoiceMail(b1234)
exten => s,103,Hangup

regards

kapejod

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Am Mon, 2003-05-26 um 10.30 schrieb Ben Bosshardt:
> I am running asterisk with a AVM euroisdn card and a few sip extensions.
How
> can I configure asterisk that the calls only get accepted when the
extension
> is picked up to avoid charges fort he called when I am out. I only want to
> accept the call and send it to voicemail after 20s to avoid charges for any
> called wanting to hang up before.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Ben Bosshardt
> 
> 
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I am running asterisk with a AVM euroisdn card and a few sip extensions. How
can I configure asterisk that the calls only get accepted when the extension
is picked up to avoid charges fort he called when I am out. I only want to
accept the call and send it to voicemail after 20s to avoid charges for any
called wanting to hang up before.

Thanks in advance
Ben Bosshardt

Ben Bosshardt wrote:
> I am running asterisk with a AVM euroisdn card and a few sip extensions.
How
> can I configure asterisk that the calls only get accepted when the
extension
> is picked up to avoid charges fort he called when I am out. I only want to
> accept the call and send it to voicemail after 20s to avoid charges for any
> called wanting to hang up before.
> 
That reminds me of a couple of other scenarios I have wanted to play 
around with but am not quite sure how to do:

1. "Count rings" generically, in the sense that I want to save the 
caller the connect fee by not picking up until so many rings have been 
sent to the local instrument channel.

2. Better, answer differentially depending on whether there is voicemail 
for a particular user (or perhaps any of a group thereof).  I am 
basically a one-person shop, so for me any voicemail anywhere (I have a 
couple of different voicemail boxes for purposes of convenience) would 
ideally trigger the behavior of my answering machine, and pick up more 
quickly than if there were no voicemail to be gotten.

Thx.

B.

>Ben Bosshardt wrote:
>>I am running asterisk with a AVM euroisdn card and a few sip extensions.
How
>>can I configure asterisk that the calls only get accepted when the
extension
>>is picked up to avoid charges fort he called when I am out. I only want
to
>>accept the call and send it to voicemail after 20s to avoid charges for
any
>  >called wanting to hang up before.
>
>That reminds me of a couple of other scenarios I have wanted to play 
>around with but am not quite sure how to do:
>
>1. "Count rings" generically, in the sense that I want to save the
>caller the connect fee by not picking up until so many rings have 
>been sent to the local instrument channel.
>
>2. Better, answer differentially depending on whether there is 
>voicemail for a particular user (or perhaps any of a group thereof). 
>I am basically a one-person shop, so for me any voicemail anywhere 
>(I have a couple of different voicemail boxes for purposes of 
>convenience) would ideally trigger the behavior of my answering 
>machine, and pick up more quickly than if there were no voicemail to 
>be gotten.
>
>Thx.
>
>B.

Sounds like this can be done with a quick shell script AGI to check 
if there is email for that "user" (or, in your case, for that 
"line"), and then a GotoIf that sends the inbound call to a different 
Dial statement with a specific delay that depends on the result of 
the AGI.

JT