On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Rich Adamson wrote: > > > Michael T Farnworth wrote: > > > > > > >more expensive phone in reception but leave the other people on the cheap > > > >Grandstream phones? > > > > > > > Yes, I have found the Snom200 does consultative transfers well.. > > > > > > >Couldn't this problem be solved with an asterisk upgrade? > > > > > > > No, Its an issue that is handled on the phone.. > > > > Perhaps I am confused, but I tend to believe that Asterisk sits in the > > middle of all these calls. So when I press the # key for transfer it > > In many cases, that's a bad assumption, but it depends on your config.
As I said in the part of my original email which has been cut out: "I suppose this would only be possible where the SIP phones weren't doing a native bridge between themselves though." > Unless you've purposefully configured something different, asterisk is > "not" in the middle. Once a call is established, the communications > (packet flows) happen directly between the two sip phones and does not > pass through asterisk. So the problem becomes an issue of the phone > itself. What has the phone been programmed to do when "any" key has > been pressed (regardless of whether its the # key or something else)? Certain parts of the operation must go via asterisk though even when there is a native bridge, because when I press the # key asterisk starts to play music to the other telephone and announces to the other phone that it is about to do a transfer. My question is whether more could be done at that point to have an attended transfer. > The discussion suggests the Grandstream phones have not been programmed > to handle transfers. (I don't have one therefore I don't have a clue as > to whether that happens to be the result of the vendor, or the person > that has implemented the phone doesn't have the knowledge or documentation > to do it.) They have a transfer button and can do a blind transfer. I am really looking for a way to convince Asterisk to do the following in a much easier way: A calls B B parks the calls from A B puts down the phone and picks it up again and calls C C says he/she will take the call B tells C where the call is parked C puts down the phone and picks up the phone and dials the parked call or A calls B B parks teh call from A B puts down the phone and picks it up again and calls C C says he/she will not take the call B puts down the phone and picks up the phone and dials the parked call Michael _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
