> "Chris Travers Wrote" > > Before I tell a customer that this would require custom development I > figured I would ask here. > > Does Asterisk support pager notification of new voicemails out of the > box? Or do I need an AGI script to do that?For our notifications, we just send e-mails as text messages to their cell phones. Most of our users have cell phones, and with the invent of SMS and text messaging, pagers are no longer needed. For verizon, we shoot emails to Number@vtext.com and for Att customers, we shoot e-mails to Number@mobile.att.net. Both work great.> Also, if I want to call a number from an automated program in Asterisk > and get the DTMF tones entered by the user on the other side, is there > an easy way to do this?Not sure here, but I am sure there is, with some AGI scripting or using the sample.call file. You can then run Background to await DTMF input. - Brent
Hi; Before I tell a customer that this would require custom development I figured I would ask here. Does Asterisk support pager notification of new voicemails out of the box? Or do I need an AGI script to do that? Also, if I want to call a number from an automated program in Asterisk and get the DTMF tones entered by the user on the other side, is there an easy way to do this? Best Wishes. Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: chris.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 127 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20040701/334d173a/chris.vcf
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 13:03, Chris Travers wrote:> Hi; > > Before I tell a customer that this would require custom development I > figured I would ask here.These questions point to you not being qualified to have customers yet.> Does Asterisk support pager notification of new voicemails out of the > box? Or do I need an AGI script to do that?AGI isn't the route for this. Most pagers support an email gateway, just use it. Maybe you need to trigger it with a procmail rule.> Also, if I want to call a number from an automated program in Asterisk > and get the DTMF tones entered by the user on the other side, is there > an easy way to do this?sample.call You may wish to call a real consultant to bail you out. Don't bother calling me, I'm not a consultant. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
> Does Asterisk support pager notification of new voicemails out of the > box? Or do I need an AGI script to do that?Yes, asterisk supports both email and pager notification out of the box. This is actually pretty flexible, since you can customize the content of the emails to be whatever you want (e.g. some phones support two-way text messaging).> Also, if I want to call a number from an automated program in > Asterisk > and get the DTMF tones entered by the user on the other side, > is there > an easy way to do this?Yes, this is possible. You would use the outgoing call API to make the call and then use a combination of Sleep(), SendDTMF() and Background() to do the actual work. Personally, I'd use an AGI script to do this so that I could fine-tune the operation. --Ernest
Another solution if * does not have native TAP support is to use the pager email notification in asterisk, but have the email be sent to your TAP gateway you setup. I have used sendpage (http://sendpage.cpoint.net/) for this purpose before. This of course assumes you want to dial into the page gateway yourself. If you are not worried about it, its probably better to send emails to the public email address provided by most pager/cell phone companies, such as <number>@mobile.att.net. On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:03, Chris Travers wrote:> Hi; > > Before I tell a customer that this would require custom development I > figured I would ask here. > > Does Asterisk support pager notification of new voicemails out of the > box? Or do I need an AGI script to do that? > > Also, if I want to call a number from an automated program in Asterisk > and get the DTMF tones entered by the user on the other side, is there > an easy way to do this? > > Best Wishes. > Chris Travers > Metatron Technology Consulting