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? > > Doug.
I would suggest you to dial to Local channel.. From there you can use Dial() application and macros if you wish to playback something.. So you would have two call legs - one connected to local channel and second to specified context/extension/priority in call file. Then in local channel you can do Answer() - that would mark that as answered and start executing context/exten/priority from callfile, or don't do answer - then answer from next subsequent dial would count. Regards, Atis _______________________________________________ --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
