[asterisk-dev] ToDo for chan_skinny

[Damien]

Dan Austin wrote:
> Pavel wrote:
>   
>> another issue with 7912:
>> when I pres "CallFWdAll" asterisk indicates it incorrectly 
>> as Do Not Disturb, it is also indcated on phone display
>> - but this text indication stays on display only until not 
>> touched to phone (call placed, menu accessed etc.), but 
>> feature is activated until next "CFwdAll" is pressed.
>>     
>
> The CallFwdAll feature is coded as DND currently, and does
> stay active until disabled.  There is a way to tell the phone
> to display a line instance icon to indicate that it is forwarded,
> but that is not implemented at this time.
>
> A proper CFA process should be:
>   1.  User presses CFA
>   2.  Chan_skinny presents dialtone and waits to collect digits
>   3.  If no digits are entered go on hook
>   4.  As digits are entered, check their validity
>   5.  Once a valid extension has been entered store it and
>       Go onhook
>
> That part is not too hard.  Now when a call comes in for the
> device/line chan_skinny would need to see if CFA was set and
> re-direct the number.  I'm not sure how that would look in
> the code....
>
> Dan
>   
The hard bit would look very similar to transfer. Arguably, once 
transfer is implemented (is it on the todo list?), the call forward 
stuff would be trivial to implement.

Damien