asterisk users - Sep 2004 - passing octothorpe

some conferencing systems want you to hit octothorpe (aka pound, hash,
etc.).  once connected, i would have expected * to be transparent to
all dtmf codes.  it seems not to be.  wiki has not been helpful, it
seems to have most references to do with octothorpe in dial plan.

so, what do i not understand?

randy

On 19 Sep 2004 at 17:56, Randy Bush wrote:
> some conferencing systems want you to hit octothorpe (aka pound, hash,
> etc.).  once connected, i would have expected * to be transparent to
> all dtmf codes.  it seems not to be.  wiki has not been helpful, it
> seems to have most references to do with octothorpe in dial plan.
> 
> so, what do i not understand?
> 
The hash can be used to tranfer in Asterisk (the t and T options at 
the end of the dial line).

The standard way to get around this is to use the doublehash (or 
maybe doublepound but unlikely to be doubleoctothorpe) patch which 
will allow you to press hash twice for transfer or once to send it to 
the remote end.  IIRC you can also specify the timeout for it to wait 
for the second hash.

Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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> The standard way to get around this is to use the doublehash (or 
> maybe doublepound but unlikely to be doubleoctothorpe) patch which 
> will allow you to press hash twice for transfer or once to send it to 
> the remote end.  IIRC you can also specify the timeout for it to wait 
> for the second hash.
aha!  and the latest is the year old one at
<http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-users@lists.digium.com/msg06524/doublehash.patch>?

randy