Re: [asterisk-users] "Follow me" with Asterisk that detects cellphone voicemail and similar announcements

Hello all, thanks to all of you for your truly excellent ideas and suggestions, greatly appreciated! You have definitely given me a lot of things to play around with in the coming days. For starters, I think I will try the built-in Follow Me feature as suggested by Karl, as it seems like this

Re: [asterisk-users] "Follow me" with Asterisk that detects cellphone voicemail and similar announcements

On 29/04/2016, at 3:46 am, A J Stiles wrote: > > > > There is no reliable way to distinguish whether a phone was answered by a > human being or a machine. > > If you can't just disable voicemail on all your SIMs then you will need to > find out how long

Re: [asterisk-users] "Follow me" with Asterisk that detects cellphone voicemail and similar announcements

Followme can be configured to accept a keypress to accept or decline the call. Put something like this in followme.conf: [general] featuredigittimeout=>5000 takecall=>1 declinecall=>2 call_from_prompt=>followme/call-from norecording_prompt=>followme/no-recording options_prompt=>followme/options

Re: [asterisk-users] "Follow me" with Asterisk that detects cellphone voicemail and similar announcements

On Thursday 28 Apr 2016, Robin Kipp wrote: > Hi all, > > sorry if the subject is a bit confusing, but I just couldn’t think of a > good way of better describing the situation… > > Basically, I travel a lot and have several SIM cards for my phone from > local carriers. What I’d like to do now is

Re: [asterisk-users] "Follow me" with Asterisk that detects cellphone voicemail and similar announcements

Theoretically, I could use the dial function to call one number, then wait a few seconds and then dial another number. In practice, this won’t work because as soon as a call is answered by the mobile carrier’s voicemail the caller would be connected to that, no other numbers would be called.

Re: [asterisk-users] "Follow me" with Asterisk that detects cellphone voicemail and similar announcements

Just a few ideas... 1. Disable all mobile carrier's voicemail and configure a voicemail on your Asterisk. Let Asterisk handle the unanswered calls. 2. If your SIP provider allows multiple calls at the same time, configure Asterisk to call all your SIMs at once (instead of calling the first,

Re: [asterisk-users] "Follow me" with Asterisk that detects cellphone voicemail and similar announcements

I know if you use freepbx on top of asterisk, you get a followme which calls one or more cell phones and ask for confirmation, maybe the regular asterisk followme does this as well, but basically this is the way to do it. Robin Kipp wrote: > Hi all, > > sorry if the

[asterisk-users] "Follow me" with Asterisk that detects cellphone voicemail and similar announcements

Hi all, sorry if the subject is a bit confusing, but I just couldn’t think of a good way of better describing the situation… Basically, I travel a lot and have several SIM cards for my phone from local carriers. What I’d like to do now is to setup Asterisk, so that people who want to reach me