asterisk users - May 2005 - Wacko Distinctive Ring Patterns being detected??

Hi All,

I've recently got a "second" number installed on my PSTN line,
trusting the Asterisk distinctive ring detection would work as
expected. It appeared to work fine at the start, as the second number
generated a different ring pattern to 0,0,0 (in the console) only to
realise that almost every phone call to this "second" number generated
a different ring pattern. Sometimes it might detect the same 2
patterns, but this is a rare case.
If Asterisk allowed me to configure up to 10 ringing patterns, I could
probably cover most of the ringing patterns being detected, but
unfortunately there is a limit of 3 which means 50% (or more) of the
calls are coming in under a distinctive ring pattern not configured in
Asterisk, and hence going to the default context.

Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas/etc on how to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance guys.
Gonzalo

Could you configure your "normal ring" to be recognized as a
distinctive
ring and go into a different context?  That would essentially allow you
to distinguish between the calls.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gonzalo Servat [mailto:gservat@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:34 PM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Wacko Distinctive Ring Patterns 
> being detected??
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've recently got a "second" number installed on my PSTN 
> line, trusting the Asterisk distinctive ring detection would 
> work as expected. It appeared to work fine at the start, as 
> the second number generated a different ring pattern to 0,0,0 
> (in the console) only to realise that almost every phone call 
> to this "second" number generated a different ring pattern. 
> Sometimes it might detect the same 2 patterns, but this is a 
> rare case. If Asterisk allowed me to configure up to 10 
> ringing patterns, I could probably cover most of the ringing 
> patterns being detected, but unfortunately there is a limit 
> of 3 which means 50% (or more) of the calls are coming in 
> under a distinctive ring pattern not configured in Asterisk, 
> and hence going to the default context.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas/etc on how to resolve 
> this issue?
> 
> Thanks in advance guys.
> Gonzalo
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On 5/28/05, Jay Milk <jay@skimmilk.net> wrote:
> Could you configure your "normal ring" to be recognized as a
distinctive
> ring and go into a different context?  That would essentially allow you
> to distinguish between the calls.
Excellent suggestion Jay! Thanks!! I changed the default context (if
no dring match) to go to the context I configured for this "second"
number and made a distinctive ring match on 0,0,0 to go to the main
number context, and works beauuuutifully.

Thanks for taking the time to reply and for your suggestion!

Regards,
Gonzalo

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 06:34:23AM +1000, Gonzalo Servat
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've recently got a "second" number installed on my PSTN
line,
> trusting the Asterisk distinctive ring detection would work as
> expected. It appeared to work fine at the start, as the second number
> generated a different ring pattern to 0,0,0 (in the console) only to
> realise that almost every phone call to this "second" number
generated
> a different ring pattern. Sometimes it might detect the same 2
> patterns, but this is a rare case.
> If Asterisk allowed me to configure up to 10 ringing patterns, I could
> probably cover most of the ringing patterns being detected, but
> unfortunately there is a limit of 3 which means 50% (or more) of the
> calls are coming in under a distinctive ring pattern not configured in
> Asterisk, and hence going to the default context.
Is there any deeper reason for that limitation, other than "it didn't
bother anybody enough"?
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas/etc on how to resolve this issue?
Could you post here some ring patterns you get? A distinctive ring can
identify a pattern that is "similar" enough to an existing pattern.
> 
> Thanks in advance guys.
> Gonzalo
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