Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:29 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote: > I'm confused about something. > It's the way Asterisk handles the A leg (ie the first party dialed) on > an originate command via the Manager Interface. > > Lets say our originate commands looks like this: > > ACTION: Originate > Async: yes > Timeout: 60000 > Exten: callback > Channel: SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Variable: destination=SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Callerid: 5551212 > Context: default > ActionID: 849120 > Priority: 1 > > Asterisk first goes and dials the Channel parameter, > SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is where it gets confusing. You have no > control over what happens here. The actions don't even appear on the > Asterisk console debug. It isn't until this party has picked up, and > control jumps to the 'callback' extension, that Asterisk shows you > what it is doing. > > So, I went and changed the Channel parmeter to Channel: > Local/[EMAIL PROTECTED], and made a LegA context: > > [LegA] > exten => _X.,1,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > exten => _X.,n,Playback(tt-monkeys) > > I wanted to have control over the call both before and after it is > placed. I wanted to be able to play a prompt to the caller before the > call is placed to the destination number. However, since we've dialled > the A party already, we have no control over the dial plan anymore > after they have answered, and I can't play prompts. > > What can I do here?
You can use "dial macro" here like exten => _X.,1,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED],M(a_leg)) and [macro_a_leg] exten => s,1,Playback(tt-monkeys) you can run most of asterisk dialplan commands in macro. as soon as your macro finished your call will be connected to "Leg B" you can read more at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+Dial#Dialmacros and http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+Macro Nasir Iqbal ICT Innovations http://www.ictinnovations.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
