You are on the correct path with immediate, and using the s extension. Place the phone in a context that does the following:
Wait,1 Palyback(hello) DISA(contezxt for outgoing calls) This whould do what you want. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Karl O. Pinc > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 1:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Action on phone pickup > > How do I get asterisk to do something when I pick up a phone? > For instance, I've got a regular pots phone hooked up to a > zaptel interface, and I want it to vocalize "hello" when I > pick up the phone and then give me a dial tone, wait for > digits, make a call, etc. > > I tried the 's' extension in extensions.conf and setting 'immediate' > to "yes' in zapata.conf and that didn't seem to work. > (Not to mention I don't know how to get dial tone and dialing > behavior back after an application executes.) > > Anybody got a clue they can slap me with? > > Thanks. > > Asterisk SVN-branch-1.2-r8905 > > Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > -- Robert A. Heinlein > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
