asterisk users - Jul 2006 - flash button on asterisk + legacy pbx system

Hi,
I have to connect  an old PBX to a new Asterisk box. but I must keep the 
same flash button functionality of the old system. Is it possible to 
tell asterisk to send a Flash signal to old pbx when receiving it from a 
phone? I know there is a flash command inside asterisk....is there 
anybody who tried and deployed such a double-pbx system with success?

TIA

Giorgio Incantalupo

The flash command will do just that. However flash only works on FXO
ports and not on SIP FXO ATAs, if you use the later then you will have
to find out how your ATA supports it.

The easiest way to set this up is to use the features.conf

On 7/3/06, Giorgio Incantalupo <gincantalupo@fgasoftware.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I have to connect  an old PBX to a new Asterisk box. but I must keep the
> same flash button functionality of the old system. Is it possible to
> tell asterisk to send a Flash signal to old pbx when receiving it from a
> phone? I know there is a flash command inside asterisk....is there
> anybody who tried and deployed such a double-pbx system with success?
>
> TIA
>
> Giorgio Incantalupo
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Hi C F,
you say Flash asterisk command send a flash signal to old pbx so that it 
sees that command as coming from an analog phone. But since Flash is not 
a digit, how can I catch it from within asterisk? How can I tell 
asterisk (es inside extensions.conf) to do something whene receive it 
from a phone?

TIA

Giorgio Incantalupo


C F wrote:
> The flash command will do just that. However flash only works on FXO
> ports and not on SIP FXO ATAs, if you use the later then you will have
> to find out how your ATA supports it.
>
> The easiest way to set this up is to use the features.conf
>
> On 7/3/06, Giorgio Incantalupo <gincantalupo@fgasoftware.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have to connect  an old PBX to a new Asterisk box. but I must keep
the
>> same flash button functionality of the old system. Is it possible to
>> tell asterisk to send a Flash signal to old pbx when receiving it from
a
>> phone? I know there is a flash command inside asterisk....is there
>> anybody who tried and deployed such a double-pbx system with success?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Giorgio Incantalupo
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> you say Flash asterisk command send a flash signal to old pbx so that
it
> sees that command as coming from an analog phone. But since Flash is
not
> a digit, how can I catch it from within asterisk? How can I tell
> asterisk (es inside extensions.conf) to do something whene receive it
> from a phone?
Giorgio,

Could you please give us some more information about your setup?  Two
really important questions:
#1 - how are you connected from Asterisk to the PBX?  (FXO/FXS, T1,
etc.?)
#2 - how are you connected from Asterisk to the telephone?  (SIP, FXS,
etc.?)
#3 - What kind of telephone are you using?

Knowing this will help us figure out what is going on.

-MC

Use features.conf,
look here at the comments:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+flash

On 7/3/06, Giorgio Incantalupo <gincantalupo@fgasoftware.com>
wrote:
> Hi C F,
> you say Flash asterisk command send a flash signal to old pbx so that it
> sees that command as coming from an analog phone. But since Flash is not
> a digit, how can I catch it from within asterisk? How can I tell
> asterisk (es inside extensions.conf) to do something whene receive it
> from a phone?
>
> TIA
>
> Giorgio Incantalupo
>
>
> C F wrote:
> > The flash command will do just that. However flash only works on FXO
> > ports and not on SIP FXO ATAs, if you use the later then you will have
> > to find out how your ATA supports it.
> >
> > The easiest way to set this up is to use the features.conf
> >
> > On 7/3/06, Giorgio Incantalupo <gincantalupo@fgasoftware.com>
wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I have to connect  an old PBX to a new Asterisk box. but I must
keep the
> >> same flash button functionality of the old system. Is it possible
to
> >> tell asterisk to send a Flash signal to old pbx when receiving it
from a
> >> phone? I know there is a flash command inside asterisk....is there
> >> anybody who tried and deployed such a double-pbx system with
success?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> Giorgio Incantalupo
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Hi Michael,
I have a TDM400P on an Asterisk box  with:
1) a FXO connected to the old pbx and
2) a FXS connected to  a normal  analog phone
3) the analog phone is a Telecom Sirio, (the most common in Italy)

If I knew how to check asterisk send/receive this non-digits signals it 
can be easier to understand if everything is going wrong, even for the 
future...I do not think installing Asterisk keeping an old PBX is so 
uncommon.

TIA

Giorgio Incantalupo.


Michael Collins wrote:
>> you say Flash asterisk command send a flash signal to old pbx so that
>>     
> it
>   
>> sees that command as coming from an analog phone. But since Flash is
>>     
> not
>   
>> a digit, how can I catch it from within asterisk? How can I tell
>> asterisk (es inside extensions.conf) to do something whene receive it
>> from a phone?
>>     
>
> Giorgio,
>
> Could you please give us some more information about your setup?  Two
> really important questions:
> #1 - how are you connected from Asterisk to the PBX?  (FXO/FXS, T1,
> etc.?)
> #2 - how are you connected from Asterisk to the telephone?  (SIP, FXS,
> etc.?)
> #3 - What kind of telephone are you using?
>
> Knowing this will help us figure out what is going on.
>
> -MC
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