[Asterisk-Users] Line is stuck off hook...

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 18:29, Gene Kochanowsky wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> I have analog lines connected to the fxo lines of the Zhone channel
> bank. All of your suggestions sound good. How do you set up the config
> file so it would play the greeting twice and then hangup the line?

In your timeout extension test a boolean vairable, if false set to true,
if true hangup.

exten => t,1,GotoIf(${looptest},Hangup,1,1)
exten => t,2,SetVar,looptest=1

[Hangup]
exten => 1,1,Hangup
 

> That would fix the problem for the most part, but why isn't *
> releasing the line when the caller hangs up. 

First, what type of signalling are you using? loopstart/groundstart/CPD?
It is important to know loopstart may not signal when it is hungup real
well. If the zhone fails to detect it, then it is possible for asterisk
to never know it hungup


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:critch at basesys.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 6:57 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Line is stuck off hook...
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:13, Gene Kochanowsky wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I am running Asterisk with a T100P and a Zhone channel bank for over a
> > month now. For the most part it works fine but from time to time
> > (about once a week) the system will not let go of a line and will play
> > the greeting over and over. Anyone calling gets a busy signal. If I
> > reset Asterisk everything works fine. Has anyone seen this problem
> > before and fixed it? If so what did you do?
> > 
> > > show version
> > Asterisk CVS-02/28/03-22:17:11 built by root at auriga on a i686 running
> > Linux.
> > 
> > If there is anything else you need to know, let me know.
> 
> What line signalling are you using? 
> 
> I'm assuming you are reffering to a phone line coming from the PSTN, is
> it analog, or is it digital? 
> 
> Have you tried soft hangup on it?
> 
> Have you tried to place a timout on it, so asterisk finally times out
> the call?
> 
> Maybe you would like to place a loop counter on the number of times the
> call makes it through the timeout extension, and after some threshold,
> you issue a hangup on the call.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>