Just a little clarification for people refering to Asterisk as a PBX and not an Answering Machine:
In fact, Asterisk is neither a PBX nor an Answering Machine. Asterisk is a Telephony Toolkit. You can choose to use it as a PBX or an Answering Machine or both or even in some case as a something different than a PBX or Answering Machine. You should know that already, so this is just a reminder :-) Sent from my iPod On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:34 PM, "Trevor Hammonds" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill Lovett wrote: >> >> Can Asterisk be configured to hang up if another phone picks up? >> >> I'm a bit lost as far as terminology goes, but here's my setup. At >> home, I have asterisk answering calls from the pstn and sending them >> through to a sip extension or voicemail. All that is working fine. >> >> The box running Asterisk isn't on 24/7 so I have a secondary phone >> connected to the line as well. If Asterisk is not running, I can >> answer an incoming call from that phone. If asterisk is running, I >> can >> answer the call from a sip extension. >> >> Can I have it both ways? Can Asterisk back off if the secondary phone >> answers the call? Currently, if a call comes in and I answer it from >> the secondary phone Asterisk will continue to ring the sip extension >> and eventually drop into voicemail. > > Asterisk is a PBX, not an answering machine, so I would advise > against this. > It would be best to have Asterisk handle the phone line exclusively, > 24/7. > However, with that said, it is possible to accomplish what you are > asking. > > Placing a telephone privacy/exclusion adapter on the line cord into > Asterisk > will cut off the phone line whenever a parallel telephone on the > same line > is picked up. This means that the instant you pick up any other > phone on > the line, it would cut off the line to Asterisk. > > Radio Shack used to sell a couple varieties of these. One was a two- > way > adapter with one side for "phone" and the other "answering > machine". You do > not need to plug anything into the "phone" side for the device to > work. The > second device was just an inline exclusion device. I was unable to > find > these at Radio Shack's website. However, I found something similar > at the > following URLs: > > (See SER2A, SER2D, and SER3P at Sandman.com) > http://www.sandman.com/lineshar.html > > http://www.trianglecables.com/telanmacorph.html > > http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/COM9928 > > http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/COM0006 > > Good luck! > > Sincerely, > Trevor Hammonds > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- 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 _______________________________________________ -- 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
