asterisk users - Oct 2016 - Adding a pause when transfering a call

All;

    When I transfer a call to another extension, I can simply press *2 and
then the extension number, say 101. No big deal. The problem I am having is
in programming a speed dial key to dial *2101, which is failing. The only
thing I can think of is that the speed dial key is dialing the string too
fast and Asterisk sees it as <*2101> instead of <*2><101>
which fails. How
do other people get around this? 

Thanks;

John  

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Hi,

some phones can add a pause when dialing, sometimes by holding the * or # key a
few seconds after the first digit.
If it works, the phone normally adds a "W" or ";" to the
dial string.
So you would program the speed dial key with <*2[hold * or #]101>.

Am 01.10.2016 um 20:22 schrieb Tech Support:
> All;
> 
>     When I transfer a call to another extension, I can simply press *2 and
then the extension number, say 101. No big deal. The problem I am having is in
programming a speed dial key to dial *2101, which is failing. The only thing I
can think of is that the speed dial key is dialing the string too fast and
Asterisk sees it as <*2101> instead of <*2><101> which fails.
How do other people get around this?
> 
> Thanks;
> 
> John  
> 
> 
> 
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On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Tech Support wrote:
> in programming a speed dial key to dial *2101, which is failing. The only
> thing I can think of is that the speed dial key is dialing the string too
> fast and Asterisk sees it as <*2101> instead of <*2><101>
which fails. How
> do other people get around this? 
I had spent a good year looking at "failed dialing" problems that I
might have been able to solve if the timing had been differant.
My solution wasn't in adding a pause in the dial string but rather
in the way Asterisk processes execution of it's Dial-Plan.

Look at: for a detail of a post I sent a while back

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2016-May/289265.html
>In short, adding the line: 
> > overlapdial=yes
>in chan_dahdi.conf changed everything!!
Depending on the channel your using: this might fix your problem.


good luck,


Stefan