asterisk users - Feb 2005 - Zap channel occasionally misses dialing the first digit

....I THINK.  When dialing 1+10 digits, I occasionally get a telco
message "You must first dial a 1....".  When I look at the console,
the
number is being sent to the ZAP channel properly.  We're talking about a
couple of POTS lines on a TDM400P.

I'm thinking that it may be starting the dial too early after coming
off-hook because I can just redial and have it work (or not) randomly.
Does anyone know what this might be and/or an easy way to have the ZAP
channel come off-hook, delay for 1/2 second or so, and then dial?

Thanks,
Daryl G. Jurbala
NGM Tec, Inc.
Tel: 215-862-1160 ext. 235
Fax: 215-862-9880

have a look at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+zap+channels

Here it tells you that you can specify a wait period.

Here are some examples of complete Dial commands as they might appear in 
your Dialplan 
<http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+extensions.conf>:

   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1)            ; Ring extension on channel 1
   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1r2)          ; Ring extension on channel 1 with
distinctive ring #2

   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1,30)         ; Ring extension on channel 1 with 30
second timeout

   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/2/5551234)    ; Dial 5551234 on channel 2
   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/2c/5551234)   ; Dial 5551234 on channel 2 with
answer confirmation

   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/2/ww5551234)  ; Wait 1 second then dial 5551234 on
channel 2

   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/g1/5551234)   ; Dial 5551234 on the first available
channel in group 1

   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1-2/1234)     ; Dial 1234 on span 1, port 2
   exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1-2/c1234)    ; Dial 1234 on span 1, port 2, with
PRI clear channel option


HTH

Julian Lyndon-Smith
IT Director
Tessera Group Plc.

Daryl G. Jurbala wrote:
>....I THINK.  When dialing 1+10 digits, I occasionally get a telco
>message "You must first dial a 1....".  When I look at the
console, the
>number is being sent to the ZAP channel properly.  We're talking about a
>couple of POTS lines on a TDM400P.
>
>I'm thinking that it may be starting the dial too early after coming
>off-hook because I can just redial and have it work (or not) randomly.
>Does anyone know what this might be and/or an easy way to have the ZAP
>channel come off-hook, delay for 1/2 second or so, and then dial?
>
>Thanks,
>Daryl G. Jurbala
>NGM Tec, Inc.
>Tel: 215-862-1160 ext. 235
>Fax: 215-862-9880 
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On February 1, 2005 11:03 am, Daryl G. Jurbala wrote:
> ....I THINK.  When dialing 1+10 digits, I occasionally get a telco
> message "You must first dial a 1....".  When I look at the
console, the
> number is being sent to the ZAP channel properly.  We're talking about
a
> couple of POTS lines on a TDM400P.
I am seeing this too, only I'm using 100% PRI.  I'm not sure how it
would be a
Zap problem since the Zap driver doesn't see any digits when you're
dealing
with PRI.

Several tries later and it suddenly works....  It's very sporadic.

-A.

-----Original Message-----
<snip>
Does anyone know what this might be and/or an easy way to have the ZAP
channel come off-hook, delay for 1/2 second or so, and then dial?

-look at the w option to the dial command on the wiki

Exten=???????,1,Dial(Zap/G?/w${EXTEN})

Jason Kawakami