asterisk users - Jul 2007 - Post voicemail processing.

This 2 line code is doing what I wanted.

exten => 200,1,voicemail(200)
exten => 200,2,Hangup

What I've been told is that they want the 20 year old phone system to 
light up the message bulb.  (yea, a filament bulb, not an LED)   To do 
this you pick up on the line that goes into Asterisk and do a:

exten => 200,1,SendDTMF(200w#86)

But I don't know the path to take to get that to happen after the 
hangup() - which is needed to close down the voicemail() call.

I've tried:

exten => 200,1,voicemail(200)
exten => 200,2,Hangup
exten => 200,3,Wait(2)
exten => 200,4,Answer
exten => 200,5,SendDTMF(200w#86)
exten => 200,6,Hangup

(go to voicemail, hangup, wait 2 seconds, lift hook, make noise, hangup)

and:

exten => 200,1,voicemail(200)
exten => 200,2,softHangup
exten => 200,3,Wait(2)
exten => 200,4,Answer
exten => 200,5,SendDTMF(200w#86)
exten => 200,6,Hangup

(go to voicemail, hangup hook but keep processing, wait 2 seconds, lift 
hook, make noise, hangup to end process)

marc+ast at milestonerdl.com wrote:
> exten => 200,1,SendDTMF(200w#86)
> 
> But I don't know the path to take to get that to happen after the 
> hangup() - which is needed to close down the voicemail() call.
I think a better approach would be to use the externnotify option in 
voicemail.conf.  This lets you specify a script that gets executed when a 
voicemail gets created.  That script could create a simple call file to run an 
extension, or anything else that you desire.

example.call
---
Channel: Zap/1
Application: SendDTMF
Data: 200w#86
---

That call file will take Zap/1 off hook, send that DTMF string, and then hang
up.

Alternatively, you could also work up something in the 'h' extension. 
This
extension gets executed after a channel is hung up.  However, I think this would
end up being more complicated to get it to work correctly.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.