Jorge Barreiro wrote:
O Venres, 5 de Agosto de 2011 17:42:28 Shaun Ruffell escribiu:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 01:14:58PM +0200, Jorge Barreiro wrote:
Hi,
thanks for your time!
O Venres, 5 de Agosto de 2011 12:35:05 escribiches:
Completely normal operation.
You need to read and understand more basic telephony and analog lines
to understand why that won't work.
I definitely have a lot to learn yet.
Asterisk needs to be in control, and once someone answers a phone not
under Asterisk control, or the call is abandoned there is little you
can do.
What I pretend is that asterisk detects that it's not under control and
gets out of the way. The same way it detects a remote hangup and stops
the dialplan, it could detect that someone else answered (the line is
not ringing anymore) and discard it the same way it does when the remote
part hangup.
I've read comments in forums and tutorials that seem to imply that this
happens, but I couldn't find any confirmation (and indeed, it's not
happening to me).
When I first installed Asterisk in my home I used it in the way that you
described: as a glorified answering machine to email to me any voice mail.
I think what you want is the WaitForRing()[1] dial plan application. This
function will wait x number of seconds, then look for *another* ring to
come in. If someone answered the phone before the timeout to that function
Asterisk would stop processing the dial plan.
[1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Application_WaitForRing
I ran into a couple of issues with WaitForRing(). The first being if
someone answered the phone and then quickly hung up *and* a new phone call
came in within the timeout period, Asterisk wouldn't know that the line
was ringing due to a new call. The second problem was I never got the dial
tone detection working so that if I tried to *place* a call from Asterisk
while someone was on the house line I would aggravate my wife.
Since coming to work for Digium I've seen in the data sheets for the FXO
interfaces that there is a capability to detect when a parallel device on a
line goes off hook. This would allow Asterisk to have a better sense of the
state of the line (like it currently can detect when a port is unplugged
and there is not battery by generating a red alarm.) but I haven't looked
into getting that information off the hardware and up into Asterisk.
Hope this helps,
Shaun
That application looks like a good solution. I can't test it until Monday, but
I'll try it and let you know. The drawbacks you mention doesn't seem too
inconvenient in my case.
Anyway, I started with this cause I thought it was an easy first step, if it
gets so complicated I think I'll go forward and put all phones under the
control of the PBX.
Thank you everybody for your help.
the situation gets more complex if Caller ID is sent and one wants to act upon
it, and Asterisk doesn't handle the call
In the US the data is sent between the first and second ring, and if the call
isn't answered by Asterisk, it thinks that another call has arrived WITHOUT the
information, and the situation falls apart rapidly or one needs to have some
logic to figure out if this is the third ring on call #1 or a new call
Though the chipset in the X100P supports looking at the output port, I don't
believe the driver fully supports it
using a TDM 4xx or even better a single port T1 card with a channel bank gives
a lot more ports for the cost
John Novack
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Dog is my Co-pilot
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