Henry, That sounds like a fun challenge.
I'm not sure if you're sending that call out an analog line, sip or what but I can tell you that when a call goes out PRI, there is out of band signalling to indicate whether the call has been answered, intercepted, redirected etc. Presumably, your VOIP provider could be making that signalling available to your Asterisk box in out of band SIP messages and that's how your box knows that it should keep trying. I've never really played with it but it's a very interesting observation that you make. Perhaps the network connecting to your old 3 watt cell device doesn't send back the most useful progress messages and therefore the asterisk box thinks that things are answered. I wonder if you could solve that problem with sphinx. Probably not, by the time the "your subscribe is unavailable" message plays, Asterisk has already decided that the 3 watt call is connected successfully and has abandoned the other channels. Maybe, instead of doing them in parallel, you could do them in series: try all the well behaved numbers first, then if that fails, play "Please hang on, we're still trying to find Henry" to your user then run a script to try the old 3 watt. Consider that you could dial, and background "press 1 to accept the call" and then the system would know that if it doesn't get a 1 within 10 seconds of the call being answered, that it can hang up. You could use sphinx if you wanted to be _really_ fancy about it. :-) On 10/6/06, Henry.L.Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have found ring groups and queues to be very handy ie. I have a queue 611 for "repair" that calls my extension and my cell phone (both at the same time) I wanted to add my girlfriends cell phone because it is the only one that can reach to the cottage, it's an old 3 watt "brick" that plugs into a car battery. Anyway this caused a problem, if the phone was turned off or out of range the service would answer the phone immeadiately with a "unavailable" message. So, (and here is the spectulative part) why when my cell phone (GSM)answers the phone to say that I am unavailable does * do the right thing and continue to ring the extension until it finally goes into my asterisk vmail box.(after 30sec.) It seem as though * can tell the difference between a real answer and a cell notification message. It's a puzzlement Henry L.Coleman CEO *VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355 Toronto Ontario Canada --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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