asterisk users - Oct 2004 - Amount of time asterisk take to pickup incoming call on ZAP interface

Hi, is it possible to change the amount of time it takes asterisk to
pickup an incoming call on a zaptel interface?


cheers
Adam

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:36:41 +1100, Sophus <sophus@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, is it possible to change the amount of time it takes asterisk to
> pickup an incoming call on a zaptel interface?
I presume you are talking about an analog FXO port here. The reason
why it takes Asterisk a while before it "picks up" is that it will try
to read the caller ID information which it is programmed to expect
alongside the first few rings and consequently it won't pickup any
earlier.

If you don't need caller ID detection or if you are in a country that
has a different way to send caller ID than the US, you may want to
turn caller ID detection off in the Zaptel driver. Check
/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf

rgds
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Sophus wrote:
> Hi, is it possible to change the amount of time it takes asterisk to
> pickup an incoming call on a zaptel interface?
> 
> 
The command

exten => s,1,Wait,5

would tell asterisk to wait 5 seconds before picking up the line. More 
info here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+Wait

Flynn

Hi,

I set callerid=no in zapata.conf

and

   exten => s,1,Wait(0)
   exten => s,2,Answer

in extensions.conf

but there is still a delay of about 5-8 seconds before asterisk picks up.
any ideas?

cheers
adam

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 00:55 +1100, Sophus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I understand now that asterisk is waiting for callerid info, is it
> possible to stop asterisk waiting for this and just answer
> immediately?
Depends on if it is possible for you to read and edit the config file.
Please look there and see how nicely it is documented. 
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