Re: [Asterisk-Users] Getting Asterisk to automatically dialout

[Andrew Elchuk]

Hi, I am not making the *.call files in the outgoing directory, they are being created elsewhere then moved to /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing with the "mv" command.  I put channel 1 into a group 1, and created a *.call file that looks like this: Channel: Zap/g1/2609944 Callerid: Nagios MaxRetries: 1 RetryTime: 60 WaitTime: 30 Context: alert Extension: 4 Priority: 1 This should connect with extension 4 of the "alert" context in extensions.conf which looks like this: [alert] exten => 4,1,Wait(1) exten => 4,2,Answer exten => 4,3,Wait(2) exten => 4,4,Playback(tt-somethingwrong) exten => 4,5,Playback(vm-goodbye) exten => 4,6,Hangup I've incorporated a the hints people have given me into trying to solve this but it still won't dialout on the analog phoneline plugged into the back of the X100P card.  If you guys have any more ideas of how to solve this that would be very much appreciated.  Thanks. Steven Critchfield wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:10, Andrew Elchuk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get asterisk to auto-dail out. I created a *.call file with the the top of it being "Channel: Zap/1/2609944", which should have connected to Zap channel 1 and dial out to 2609944, but It did not do so, asterisk would say a call was completed to Zap/1/2609944 but I never heard that phone ring. So I tried just putting "Channel: Zap/1" at the top of the call file so it would connect to Zap channel 1, then in the *.call file connect it to an "outgoing" context in extensions.conf which looked like: First, don't call out on specific channels. Put the channels in a group and then use the group. Even if right now you only have one channel, it will help you out later. The first type of call file would be like this below ############## Channel: Zap/g1/2609944 MaxRetries: 2 RetryTime: 60 WaitTime: 30 # now to a context/extension/priority that does what you want. Context: AutoAnswer Extension: 4 Priority: 1 ################### [outgoing] exten => s,1,Wait(1) exten => s,2,Dial(Zap/1/2609944) This would never work since the dial would connect out and not return till the call hungup.