Woah woah woah.. why not just disable SBC voicemail and have asterisk handle it? I don't understand why you would go to such great lengths when you can just have Asterisk deal with it.
On 7/1/05, andrew matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there alternative access to voicemail? Like web access? > > If there was then you can write a program to check the site every 5 or 10 > minutes maybe every 30, and parse out the message listing and then send MWI > to the phones if there is a VM waiting. > > Or > > You could get one of those cheep 20 dollar devices and hook it up to the > serial port on the asterisk box and then you can use sty to monitor the port > for changes. Then send the message that way. I'd have to research it a > little more but it very possible. > > Just a thought :) > > > On 7/1/05, Chris Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does this just sound worse than it is? > > > > >> "With SBC you are out of luck, since Asterisk doesn't detect dialtone > ( > > >> it dials blind, sometimes too quickly for the CO to catch the first > > >> digit, resulting in wrong numbers )) or stutter dialtone either, and > > >> reportedly has had any indication of the DC status of a POTS line > > >> removed due to problems." > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of John Novack > > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:42 AM > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] passing through MWI info from SBC > > > > > > Mike Myers wrote: > > > > >Hi.. I am about to replace my aging Nortel Venture > > >system with an Asterisk system and 6 Polycom IP 501 > > >phones, and a couple sipura 841's for less used areas. > > > > > >We have 3 phone lines here. One is SBC, one Vonage, > > >and one Voipjet... One hangup is that I can't figure > > >out how to pass through a voicemail waiting indication > > >from SBC. This is important because my wife and her > > >family all exchange voicemails with each other on the > > >SBC voicemail system. They can leave messages for > > >each other without having the phones ring, etc... We > > >have a 2 yr old at home, and her sister has some small > > >kids too, so that's how they manage to send voicemails > > >when they are unsure if the kids are sleeping, etc... > > >Anyway, preserving this capability of using the SBC VM > > >and being notified when a message is waiting is > > >critical for good WAF. > > > > > >The vonage line and voipjet line can be intergrated > > >into the Asterisk VM. My Nortel venture phones light > > >the MWI if any line has VM on it, and the display > > >tells you which lines have VM waiting. I would love > > >to be able to duplicate this function on the Polycom's > > >and hopefully the Sipura's as well. > > > > > >I've looked for answers on this, but haven't found > > >one, hence the post. My apologies if I have missed > > >something. > > > > > >Thanks much, > > >Mike > > > > > > > > You haven't missed much. > > With SBC you are out of luck, since Asterisk doesn't detect dialtone ( > > it dials blind, sometimes too quickly for the CO to catch the first > > digit, resulting in wrong numbers )) or stutter dialtone either, and > > reportedly has had any indication of the DC status of a POTS line > > removed due to problems. > > > > Only choice would to port the number to a VOIP provider and provide the > > VM in Asterisk. > > Similar problem with Vonage VM. > > > > John Novack > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > -- Is it something someone said, was it something someone said? _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
