I know my answer won't help this user because he is using analog lines;
but if you have a PRI you can detect if the call was direct dialed or
forwarded by checking the RDNIS.
Something like:
GoToIf($[X${RDNIS} != X]?${EXTEN},5)
John
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:37 -0400, Shidan wrote:
> The only way you can do it is with extra DIDs, or program your cell
> phones to press a key after they hit the ivr, most cell phones let you
> do this, if you have motorolas ping me off list and i can show you on
> IM.
>
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> Shidan
>
> On 6/23/06, John Van Ostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:01 -0400, Jag Basrai wrote:
> > I recently started using Asterisk as our homes voicemail.
> > Its rather convienient to have multiple voice mails, one for
> > each member of the family. A week ago I opened my cell phone
> > bill and noticed that I could probably save $5 per cell
> > phone if I had the cell phone forward a missed call to
> > asterisk rather than the voicemail service provided by Fido.
> > With 5 cell users that's $25/month. So what I did was in my
> > dial plan i just checked for CallerID of the cell phone if
> > it matched a certain number it would go straight to a
> > specific voicemail bypassing the auto attendant. But when I
> > did this (which worked fine if the cell called the asterisk
> > box) the CallerID forwarded by Fido is the same as the
> > person who called not the CallerID of the cell phone. So if
> > my cell number is 123-123-1234 and the number calling me is
> > 111-111-1111 then the cell will forward 111-111-1111 not
> > 123-123-1234, which I thought was the case as the cell would
> > forward its own number.
> >
> > Now I can not figure out how to make my dial plan do what it
> > needs too. Does anyone know how I could set it up so that
> > each cell user will have its own voicemail rather than going
> > through auto attendant. Is this even possible?
>
> This is normally done with DID, Direct Inward Dialing. I'm
> told that one can get DIDs from VoIP providers fairly cheaply.
>
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