asterisk users - Apr 2005 - Dynamic Dialplan - Turn VM on/off?

G'day. I've been working with * for some time now, but mostly from a 
enterprise perspective. I've just setup my own box at home and want to 
enable some more "home user" type functionality.

Does anyone have a trick to allow the dynamic modification of the 
dialplan by users? I want the ability to switch voicemail on/off (or at 
least alter the timeout).

In essence, I want to simulate the act of manually turning an answering 
machine on when you leave home (for my wife).

Rod,

Here is my macro for this:

[macro-sipexten]
exten => a,1,VoicemailMain(${ARG1})
exten => a,2,Hangup()
exten => s,1,DBGet(NATIMEOUT=Features/${EXTEN}/NATIMEOUT)
exten => s,2,Dial(${ARG2},${NATIMEOUT})
exten => s,3,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
exten => s,102,Goto(s,350)
exten => s,350,SetVar(NATIMEOUT=30)
exten => s,351,Goto(s,2)

As you can see it picks it up from DB with default being 30secs if no DB
entry exist.


 
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> G'day. I've been working with * for some time now, but mostly from
a
> enterprise perspective. I've just setup my own box at home and want to
> enable some more "home user" type functionality.
> 
> Does anyone have a trick to allow the dynamic modification of the
> dialplan by users? I want the ability to switch voicemail on/off (or
at
> least alter the timeout).
> 
> In essence, I want to simulate the act of manually turning an
answering
> machine on when you leave home (for my wife).
> 
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> G'day. I've been working with * for some time now, but mostly from
a
> enterprise perspective. I've just setup my own box at home and want to 
> enable some more "home user" type functionality.
> 
> Does anyone have a trick to allow the dynamic modification of the 
> dialplan by users? I want the ability to switch voicemail on/off (or at 
> least alter the timeout).
> 
> In essence, I want to simulate the act of manually turning an answering 
> machine on when you leave home (for my wife).
Lots of different ways to do those things... here's one basic example:

; toggle the ivr by dialing this extension                                      
exten => 3950,1,DBget(ISIVRON=FEAT/ivron) ; if success, step 2, else 102
exten => 3950,2,GotoIf(${ISIVRON} == yes?3:102)
exten => 3950,3,DBdel(FEAT/ivron)
exten => 3950,4,Background(npi-ivroff)
exten => 3950,5,Hangup
exten => 3950,102,DBput(FEAT/ivron=yes)
exten => 3950,103,Background(npi-ivron)
exten => 3950,104,Hangup

Then insert something in your dialplan statements to read the DBget
values, and branch as appropriate. 

That example essentially turns an IVR on/off by dialing extn 3950.