asterisk users - May 2008 - Anyone Know How to Have Asterisk Work Like GranCentral and Require a Touch-Tone to Connect?

GrandCentral has a feature where when you call the GrandCentral number it
can ring multiple phones.  However, it's not the first phone to answer that
gets connected, but the first phone to answer AND play a touch-tone after
hearing a recording.  The advantage of this is that if one of the called
phones has voicemail, it won't get connected to the calling party because
the VM won't send a touch tone in response to the recording, unlike a live
person.

I have always resisted implementing a multiple ring scenario with Asterisk
that included a cellphone because of the voicemail answering problem, but
this seems to be a solution.

Anyone know how to implement it with Asterisk?
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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Robert DeVries <rdlists at gmail.com>
wrote:
> GrandCentral has a feature where when you call the GrandCentral number it
> can ring multiple phones.  However, it's not the first phone to answer
that
> gets connected, but the first phone to answer AND play a touch-tone after
> hearing a recording.  The advantage of this is that if one of the called
> phones has voicemail, it won't get connected to the calling party
because
> the VM won't send a touch tone in response to the recording, unlike a
live
> person.
>
> I have always resisted implementing a multiple ring scenario with Asterisk
> that included a cellphone because of the voicemail answering problem, but
> this seems to be a solution.
>
> Anyone know how to implement it with Asterisk?
>
GREAT IDEA!  (even if it wasn't yours ;-)

I have had so many issues with this and desk phones, cell phones being
out of range, turned off, or answering machines set to answer after
two rings.

If this gets implemented, it would be a great feature and save me tons
of complaints and explanations.

Maybe a posting on the dev list is appropriate.  I would certainly
contribute to a bounty.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

FreePBX has this functionality... they call it "Confirm Calls"

I;m not sure if you can set it on actual extensions, but I know you can set it
on ring groups.

I don't imagine the dialplan for doing it is very complicated if you wanted
to do it by hand.

--
Matt
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lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Robert DeVries [rdlists at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:24 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-users] Anyone Know How to Have Asterisk Work Like   
GranCentral and Require a Touch-Tone to Connect?

GrandCentral has a feature where when you call the GrandCentral number it can
ring multiple phones.  However, it's not the first phone to answer that gets
connected, but the first phone to answer AND play a touch-tone after hearing a
recording.  The advantage of this is that if one of the called phones has
voicemail, it won't get connected to the calling party because the VM
won't send a touch tone in response to the recording, unlike a live person.

I have always resisted implementing a multiple ring scenario with Asterisk that
included a cellphone because of the voicemail answering problem, but this seems
to be a solution.

Anyone know how to implement it with Asterisk?

srv04*CLI> show application Dial
srv04*CLI>
  -= Info about application 'Dial' =-

[Synopsis]
Place a call and connect to the current channel

*SNIP*

    p    - This option enables screening mode. This is basically Privacy mode
           without memory.
    P([x]) - Enable privacy mode. Use 'x' as the family/key in the
database if
           it is provided. The current extension is used if a database
           family/key is not specified.

    n    - This option is a modifier for the screen/privacy mode. It specifies
           that no introductions are to be saved in the priv-callerintros
           directory.
    N    - This option is a modifier for the screen/privacy mode. It specifies
           that if callerID is present, do not screen the call.


On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Robert DeVries <rdlists at gmail.com>
wrote:
> GrandCentral has a feature where when you call the GrandCentral number it
> can ring multiple phones.  However, it's not the first phone to answer
that
> gets connected, but the first phone to answer AND play a touch-tone after
> hearing a recording.  The advantage of this is that if one of the called
> phones has voicemail, it won't get connected to the calling party
because
> the VM won't send a touch tone in response to the recording, unlike a
live
> person.
>
> I have always resisted implementing a multiple ring scenario with Asterisk
> that included a cellphone because of the voicemail answering problem, but
> this seems to be a solution.
>
> Anyone know how to implement it with Asterisk?
>
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