I have connected a PSTN line to a Digium FXO card. There is also an ordinary analogue phone attached to the same line. The Asterisk answers the line on the first ring. I would like it to wait for a few seconds so that someone can answer the PSTN line with an analogue phone. This would allow a person to directly pick up the line if they wanted to or if not, let it go to the Asterisk where it would be dispatched through the normal process. Currently, as soon as the analogue phone rings, the Asterisk PBX has already answered the call and starts the "You have reached..... Dial ...." and tries to dispatch the call. This makes it hard to carry on a conversation. Ron -- Ron Wheeler President Artifact Software Inc email: rwheeler at artifact-software.com skype: ronaldmwheeler phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102
-----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:31 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk as answering machine I have connected a PSTN line to a Digium FXO card. There is also an ordinary analogue phone attached to the same line. The Asterisk answers the line on the first ring. I would like it to wait for a few seconds so that someone can answer the PSTN line with an analogue phone. This would allow a person to directly pick up the line if they wanted to or if not, let it go to the Asterisk where it would be dispatched through the normal process. Currently, as soon as the analogue phone rings, the Asterisk PBX has already answered the call and starts the "You have reached..... Dial ...." and tries to dispatch the call. This makes it hard to carry on a conversation. Ron In your dialplan, put Wait(10) in front of Answer(). This will give the human 4 rings to pick up before Asterisk does.
Problematic at best. Just make a phone an extension and allow that to ring in a hunt group. Thanks, Steve Totaro On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Ron Wheeler <rwheeler at artifact-software.com> wrote:> I have connected a PSTN line to a Digium FXO card. > There is also an ordinary analogue phone attached to the same line. > > The Asterisk answers the line on the first ring. > > I would like it to wait for a few seconds so that someone can answer the > PSTN line with an analogue phone. > This would allow a person to directly pick up the line if they wanted to or > if not, let it go to the Asterisk where it would be dispatched through the > normal process. > > Currently, as soon as the analogue phone rings, the Asterisk PBX has already > answered the call and starts the "You have reached..... Dial ...." and tries > to dispatch the call. > > This makes it hard to carry on a conversation. > > Ron > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: rwheeler at artifact-software.com > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On 02/01/2013 3:33 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote:> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:31 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk as answering machine > > I have connected a PSTN line to a Digium FXO card. > There is also an ordinary analogue phone attached to the same line. > > The Asterisk answers the line on the first ring. > > I would like it to wait for a few seconds so that someone can answer the > PSTN line with an analogue phone. > This would allow a person to directly pick up the line if they wanted to or > if not, let it go to the Asterisk where it would be dispatched through the > normal process. > > Currently, as soon as the analogue phone rings, the Asterisk PBX has already > answered the call and starts the "You have reached..... Dial ...." and tries > to dispatch the call. > > This makes it hard to carry on a conversation. > > Ron > > In your dialplan, put Wait(10) in front of Answer(). This will give the > human 4 rings to pick up before Asterisk does. > > >I feel pretty silly. It worked. I saw this in a few Google responses but thought that I had already tested this. Now I have just dumped myself back to "newbee" status. Thanks Ron -- Ron Wheeler President Artifact Software Inc email: rwheeler at artifact-software.com skype: ronaldmwheeler phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102