asterisk users - Aug 2005 - priority "a" in macro to access voicemail

I have added the following to a macro that is used for all extensions so
a user can access voicemailmain by pressing * during the voicemail
prompt

 

; check voicemail

exten => a,1,voicemailmain(${macro_exten})

exten => a,2,hangup

 

The behavior is a little weird, the * key is not recognized during the
portion of the greeting where the extension number is being played back,
after it is played back, for the duration of the greeting, the * key is
recognized and works as expected.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

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i think may be you should read this:

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20cmd%20Macro

On 8/2/05, Damon Estep <damon@suburbanbroadband.net>
wrote:
>  
>  
> 
> I have added the following to a macro that is used for all extensions so a
> user can access voicemailmain by pressing * during the voicemail prompt 
> 
>   
> 
> ; check voicemail 
> 
> exten => a,1,voicemailmain(${macro_exten}) 
> 
> exten => a,2,hangup 
> 
>   
> 
> The behavior is a little weird, the * key is not recognized during the
> portion of the greeting where the extension number is being played back,
> after it is played back, for the duration of the greeting, the * key is
> recognized and works as expected. 
> 
>   
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
>   
> 
>   
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I missed the part of that page that has anything to do with the
question. The portion of the dialplan I posted is a small snipet of a
huge macro, that part that sends you to voicemailmain when * is pressed.

It works, but has a small bug as previously stated;

"The behavior is a little weird, the * key is not recognized during the
portion of the greeting where the extension number is being played back,
after it is played back, for the duration of the greeting, the * key is
recognized and works as expected."
 
> 
> i think may be you should read this:
> 
> http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20cmd%20Macro
> 
> On 8/2/05, Damon Estep <damon@suburbanbroadband.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I have added the following to a macro that is used for all
extensions so
> a
> > user can access voicemailmain by pressing * during the voicemail
prompt
> >
> >
> >
> > ; check voicemail
> >
> > exten => a,1,voicemailmain(${macro_exten})
> >
> > exten => a,2,hangup
> >
> >
> >
> > The behavior is a little weird, the * key is not recognized during
the
> > portion of the greeting where the extension number is being played
back,
> > after it is played back, for the duration of the greeting, the * key
is
> > recognized and works as expected.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >

Damon Estep wrote:
> The behavior is a little weird, the * key is not recognized during the 
> portion of the greeting where the extension number is being played 
> back, after it is played back, for the duration of the greeting, the * 
> key is recognized and works as expected.
>
                res = ast_streamfile(chan, "vm-theperson",
chan->language);
                if (res)
                        return -1;
                res = ast_waitstream(chan, ecodes);
                if (res)
                        return res;
                res = ast_say_digit_str(chan, ext, ecodes, chan->language);
                if (res)
                        return res;

My guess would be that ast_say_digit_str does not handle exiting on * 
like ast_waitstream does.  Fixing is beyond my abilities at the moment, 
but that's where I would start looking...