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Hi, Does anyone know how to tell Asterisk to transmit a switchhook flash? I have Asterisk attached to the ATA adapter of my legacy PBX, and some features of the ATA/PBX are supposed to be accessed using an analog telephone's switchhook flash or "link" button. I want to emulate this. - Mike

...pe = Trunk, Destination State = Alerting, Type = Target List 08-14-13 07:26:17 AM-963ms Line = 18, Channel = 1, SIP Message = Response, Call Ref = 137, Direction = From Switch, From = 3241 at 172.16.8.40, To = 1083 at 172.16.8.5, Response = 180 Ringing 08-14-13 07:26:27 AM-675ms Extension = 1083, Switchhook, Status = Off 08-14-13 07:26:27 AM-676ms Call Ref = 137, Originator State = Incoming Alerting, Type = Trunk, Destination State = Alerting, Type = User 08-14-13 07:26:50 AM-173ms Extension = 1083, Switchhook, Status = On 08-14-13 07:26:50 AM-176ms Call Ref = 137, Originator State = Incoming Alert...

...9;t clear to me what sort of channel they were talking about, but that would be fine, our dialplan will let the caller get back to the operator if the transferred extension is busy or doesn't answer. I haven't used this feature before (I told the users to transfer calls by flashing the switchhook) I tried on my test system in my office (the production system is in another country) to dial one Zap FXS from another and hit # and nothing happened. Does the # transfer only work when there is more than one call arriving on a channel? Or does something need to be done to enable this? I sea...

Is there a way to record your own voice messages ("Welcome to my PBX, Press 1 for ...") using asterisk and an analog phone, or do they need to be recorded using traditional voice recording software? Also, I am confused as to why my replies to the message board are never indented. Call this the ultimate newbie question, but how should the reply be worded so that I don't screw up