asterisk users - May 2005 - CAPI on ptp with variable length digits in phone number

Hi!

we have a german PtP PRI connection here.
our old telephone system was programmed to accept digits by variable
length.
so our MSN, assigned my telco is, lets say: 123
and we can use first digit from 0-4. and every further digit like we
want.
means:

123-1
123-2345
123-444444
till
123-49999999999....
but not 123-5...

I'm using an Eicon diva server PRI 23M with chan_capi.

my problem is dialing IN.

block mode works perfect. (when the whole number is sent as a block)

I just add

exten => 123114,1,Dial(SIP/blahblah)

works.

but if someone dials digit-wise, lets say 123114,
asterisk starts scanning the dialplan after 1231.
doesnt find an extension and exits.
even using 
exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,4
as first line in the dialin-extension won't help.

so, I need to find a way that asterisk collects the digits until it has
a matching one.
p.ex. wait scanning the extensions till the caller typed 123114.
I can live with fixed length extensions. means, always wait for 3
digits.


thanks for help..

Sebastian

hi back,

we had this sort of problems (and some other ones... sigh) with an eicon diva 
& chan_capi in austria.

<rant mode=on>

unfortunately we never got around to fix this spaghetti of a code in 
chan_capi.c to work as intended 

(it takes the first session_setup it gets from the line and ignores, that per 
specification of isdn you can send digits for DID _after_ the setup of the 
connection too. there should be a timer with timeout for waiting for those 
digits. we tried to implement a separate thread into chan_capi to handle this 
timeout, but the code and the variable-naming is so obscure, we never got 
arround to finding let alone fixing a "invalid pointer not freed" bug
in our
hack of this hack).

<rant mode=off>

as a last desperate try we got a sirrix-card (search on the wiki for sirrix) 
and i had some very good calls with sirrix' development department, who
fixed
all problems in the isdn-layer and the asterisk-channel (chan_sirrix) for us. 
works perfectly.

sorry i have no immediate solution, but i dumped the avm and eicon cards 
completely in favor of the sirrix ones.

Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 13:04 schrieb Sebastian Buntin:
> Hi!
>
> we have a german PtP PRI connection here.
> our old telephone system was programmed to accept digits by variable
> length.
> so our MSN, assigned my telco is, lets say: 123
> and we can use first digit from 0-4. and every further digit like we
> want.
> means:
>
> 123-1
> 123-2345
> 123-444444
> till
> 123-49999999999....
> but not 123-5...
>
> I'm using an Eicon diva server PRI 23M with chan_capi.
>
> my problem is dialing IN.
>
> block mode works perfect. (when the whole number is sent as a block)
>
> I just add
>
> exten => 123114,1,Dial(SIP/blahblah)
>
> works.
>
> but if someone dials digit-wise, lets say 123114,
> asterisk starts scanning the dialplan after 1231.
> doesnt find an extension and exits.
> even using
> exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,4
> as first line in the dialin-extension won't help.
>
> so, I need to find a way that asterisk collects the digits until it has
> a matching one.
> p.ex. wait scanning the extensions till the caller typed 123114.
> I can live with fixed length extensions. means, always wait for 3
> digits.
>
>
> thanks for help..
>
> Sebastian
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hi again,

just ignore my mentioning of the sirrix-cards, just realised you have a PRI, i 
overread it and thought you had a BRI. so i think your last hope is a 
zaptel-card.

regards,

Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 13:04 schrieb Sebastian Buntin:
> Hi!
>
> we have a german PtP PRI connection here.
> our old telephone system was programmed to accept digits by variable
> length.
> so our MSN, assigned my telco is, lets say: 123
> and we can use first digit from 0-4. and every further digit like we
> want.
> means:
>
> 123-1
> 123-2345
> 123-444444
> till
> 123-49999999999....
> but not 123-5...
>
> I'm using an Eicon diva server PRI 23M with chan_capi.
>
> my problem is dialing IN.
>
> block mode works perfect. (when the whole number is sent as a block)
>
> I just add
>
> exten => 123114,1,Dial(SIP/blahblah)
>
> works.
>
> but if someone dials digit-wise, lets say 123114,
> asterisk starts scanning the dialplan after 1231.
> doesnt find an extension and exits.
> even using
> exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,4
> as first line in the dialin-extension won't help.
>
> so, I need to find a way that asterisk collects the digits until it has
> a matching one.
> p.ex. wait scanning the extensions till the caller typed 123114.
> I can live with fixed length extensions. means, always wait for 3
> digits.
>
>
> thanks for help..
>
> Sebastian
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