Free long distance?
What allows the free long distance?
Personalized voicemail?
Is that accomplised wiht a single line? I guess this is done by the
voicemail picking up and the caller having to go through a menu to
get to the right VM. Something like "Press 1 to get dad. Press 2 to
get Mom. Press 3 to get kid 1."
Is this right?
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:44:55 -0700, Jason Kawakami
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> <snip>
>
> Is this possible with asterisk? Anyone have a sample dialplan?
>
> -other than the problem outlined below I would try something like
>
> S,1,wait(20)
> S,2,voicemail(uwhatever)
> S,3,hangup
>
> That should ignore the call for 20 seconds and then leave a message in the
> unavailable greeting for 'whatever' then hangup
>
> That leaves another problem - retrieving the messages. Sounds
> like console GUI or web interface would be the only way to do this -
> since the only way to get connected to the voicemail service
> is by calling in through the PSTN - since asterisk doesn't "own"
> any extensions. Do I have this right?
>
> 2. Now, a more full-blown home-use scenario.
>
> Suppose I DO want to have asterisk run my two-line home
> phone system, and I obtained the requisite FXS and FXO
> interfaces - maybe the 2x2 Digium card, or maybe go SIP
> on my side.
>
> Now, I'm as much a hobbyist as anyone... but my wife and kids
> aren't. There's no way I'm going to run a PBX at home if anyone
> except me actually has to treat it like one, at least for basic
> features, like placing a phone call.
>
> So...
>
> Is it in principle possible to create a dialplan that allows
> prefix-free dialing to an outside line, and move all the
> "PBX-like" features behind some special prefix?
>
> i.e. recognize 3, 7 and 11 digit numbers as phone numbers
> and dial them without further ado, and put voicemail and
> every other PBX-ish feature behind, say "#"?
>
> this really isn't this complex. I taught my mother how to dial '9' and she
> bitched for about a month until she started making free calls to all of her
> friends all over the world. They will need to have an "aha moment" where
> they realize the power of the system. Sell the kids on personalized
> voicemails for them etc. crap like that. Kids will love it, and you will
> never have to take messages for them ever again.
>
> [default]
> Include=home_extensions
> Include=local
> Include=long_distance
>
> [home_extensions]
>
> Include=default
> Exten => 1000,1,... ;dial 1000,1001 etc
>
> Exten=9999,1,voicemailmain([EMAIL PROTECTED] ;dial 9999
> for voicemail retrieval, leave out a pin in voicemail.conf to make it easy
>
> [local]
>
> Exten=_NXXXXXX,1,Dial(zap/outgoing channel/${EXTEN})
>
> [long_distance]
>
> Exten=_1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(zap/outgoing channel/${EXTEN})
>
> Note that I haven't done the first example but the second one is duck soup.
>
> Jason Kawakami
> www.optellabs.com
> Salt Lake City, UT
>
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