Hi John, This seems like a great idea. Would you share with us how such pre-ring extension?
thanks, Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cianfarani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Richard (Rogers @ work)'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'David Cook (Canada)'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:55 AM Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Setup call forward if not available in FreePBX > The followme feature of freepbx has this functionality. You can setup an > extension to pre-ring for a certain period. So ring your house line for > 20secs and then dial out to your cell phone (and continue the house line if > you wish). It can also optionally answer and play an announcement before > forwarding the calls. > > Thanks > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard (Rogers @ work) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:29 AM > To: David Cook (Canada) > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Setup call forward if not available in FreePBX > > Thanks David for your analytical thoughts. Indeed, you are very correct > and it does seem a bit strange. > But here is what I have until I buy and replace/convert all of my analogue > phones. > > Currently, I do now have any IP phones. I only have the incoming line > connect to asterisk and all of my analogue phones in paralle. > For not, I would like my old phones to continue to ring and if no one > answers, then forward to my cell where I have VM feature. > > It would be nice if I can configure asterisk to wait for a specified number > of seconds before pick it up as it currently picks up the line very quickly > to put the caller into the IVR menu, so sometimes we miss the calls and have > to pick up the call from the cell. > > Feel free to comment as there could be other better ways to get around my > temparily problem. I am looking for some good IP phones and ATA too.. > > thanks, > Richard > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Cook (Canada)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Richard (Rogers @ work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 8:48 AM > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Setup call forward if not available in FreePBX > > > > Quoting "Richard (Rogers @ work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am trying to a feature called "call forward/redirect" (offered by > > > Bell) when unavailable in my FreePBX. (Trixbox 1.2) > > > > > > This is a simple feature which after so many incoming rings, it > > > assumes > > > no one is available and then automatically forward to another number. > > > > This means you will never get voicemail on your asterisk box but you > > will answer some (most) calls there or wait a long time to fwd to the > > other number. > > > > Just asking ... Woudn't you want to do simultaneous ring than pull back > > the call to Asterisk voicemail so all VM is in one spot? > > > > dbc. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
