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I would like the ability for a sipura sip device to instantly connect to an asterisk server as soon as the sipura sip device goes offhook and before any digits are pressed. This way asterisk can provide the dialtone and the dialplan. This also allows me to play a greeting to the phone before giving them a dialtone. Is there any way to do this, like possibly having the sipura device dial a

Hi all, I am trying to make decisions in my dialplan based on {DIALSTATUS}. I am creating calls using AMI (rawman with parameters via URL) with action:Originate. I am using SIP and an outside voip provider for the calls. If I define the number to call in the Channel parameter (e.g. SIP/15555555555 at myvoipprovider, the call gets placed before entering the context that I defined. I understand