Hi, I want to create a system for incoming calls where, under some circumstances, callers get routed straight to voicemail (or some other means of recording a message) but if they enter a valid extension number then the recorded message would be abandoned and they'd be diverted to the extension number they entered.
I realise this can be done with the voicemail app with operator=yes but the problem with this is that the caller has to press 0 while the announcement is being played. If they're too slow and recording has started, they've missed the opportunity. So I played around with ConfBridge and a couple of call files, just to see if I could get it to work. It's a bit convoluted but the idea is that the caller gets silently put into a conference, then two call files make asterisk silently connect to other calls into the same conference, with one doing the recording and the other using Read() to collect digits. If I just had the caller and one of the other calls in the conference (the one doing Read()) then this worked - Read() managed to read the DTMF digits and assign them to a variable. However, when the 'recording' call is also in the conference, the 'read' call can no longer recognise the DTMF digits. To test, I made the 'read' call play a sound before calling Read() and I could hear this being played so the call was definitely there. However, regardless of the number of digits I pressed, Read() didn't notice any of them, even if I introduced a delay so that the other channels were quiet before the call to Read(). I realise this might seem a bit like a mad solution but can anyone else think of a way to get Asterisk to read (and react to) DTMF digits during a recording? This is with Asterisk 1.8.7. -- Cheers, Kingsley. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users