asterisk users - Jul 2004 - Pickup an unanswered line

Apologies if this messages appears more than once, somehow sending it via
gmane's nntp-server doesn't work as expected.
Been trying to send this message for 2 days now, without success so far...
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Hello,
I'm exploring the capablities of Asterisk and must say I'm really
impressed!
However, I don't need most of the options, but can't figure out the
things
that appear simple to me...

We share our 3 phonelines with 20 users (students). There's a (pre-WWII)
ISDN-PBX which some of the students want to keep. Since only 5 handsets can
be attached I thought Asterisk would be a perfect solution for the remaining
15 students.

So far I managed to get things running, but if I configure extensions.conf
like

exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,DigitTimeout(10)
exten => s,3,ResponseTimeout(20)
exten => s,4,Background(vm-extension)

the old PBX users can nolonger answer the line, since Asterisk answers it.
Is it possible to answer an incoming call by dialing (eg.) an * (or dial 8)?
(also possible to broadcast caller ID without answering???)

Thanks in advance!
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> So far I managed to get things running, but if I configure extensions.conf
> like
>
> exten => s,1,Answer
> exten => s,2,DigitTimeout(10)
> exten => s,3,ResponseTimeout(20)
> exten => s,4,Background(vm-extension)
>
> the old PBX users can nolonger answer the line, since Asterisk answers it.
How about this:

exten => s,1,Wait,10
exten => s,2,Answer
exten => s,3,Background(vm-extension)

That way the call will ring your old PBX for 10 seconds, and if no-one picks
it up then the autoattendant kicks in.

Cheers,
Faiz

> > So far I managed to get things running, but if I configure
extensions.conf
> > like
> >
> > exten => s,1,Answer
> > exten => s,2,DigitTimeout(10)
> > exten => s,3,ResponseTimeout(20)
> > exten => s,4,Background(vm-extension)
> >
> > the old PBX users can nolonger answer the line, since Asterisk answers
it.
>
> How about this:
>
> exten => s,1,Wait,10
> exten => s,2,Answer
> exten => s,3,Background(vm-extension)
>
> That way the call will ring your old PBX for 10 seconds, and if no-one
picks
> it up then the autoattendant kicks in.
>
So we need to wait for 10 seconds, before we can answer the line.
It would be great if it is possible (by dialing 8) Asterisk picks up a
ringing line and puts it through to the accepting softphone.

Thanks,
Dirk
> Cheers,
> Faiz
>
>
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> the old PBX users can nolonger answer the line, since Asterisk answers
You've got several MSNs, don't you?  Use one for the old PBX and one for
the Asterisk PBX.