[Asterisk-Users] Call screening

[Joel Scotkin]

Right, but that still takes manual intervention.  I'm trying to get this
scenario:

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- Phone rings

- Asterisk picks up, starts playing phone tree, simultaneously enables
speaker connected to machine so someone at home can hear what's going on

- Friend says "Hey Joel, sorry I missed you", which I can hear, even though
he is leaving a message

-I run to the phone and pick up to talk to him.  If its my girlfriends
parents, I choose not to pick up...
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Any way to do that?

Thanks!
Joel


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brancaleoni Matteo" <mbrancaleoni at espia.it>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Call screening


> If you're using zap channels
> you could use the Zapbarge app.
> Just set up an extension to start
> the app, like
>
> exten => 8000,1,ZapBarge
> exten => 8000,2,Hangup
>
> Asterisk then will prompt for a chan
> number (zaptel only!) and let
> you listen to what passes
> on that channel...
>
> You can barge from any channel, but
> only into zaptel (ie you can listen
> from sip to a zap channel).
>
> Matteo
>
> Il dom, 2003-04-20 alle 01:07, Joel Scotkin ha scritto:
> > I've set up asterisk with my X100P as a home answering machine.  Works
great
> > so far - answers the phone after 20 seconds, runs the phone tree, emails
> > voicemail, etc.
> >
> > However, the one feature traditional answering machines have that I
haven't
> > been able to figure out is how to listen in on the call.  Ideally I
could
> > just route through Console/dsp and hear it on my speakers.  I've tried
the
> > monitoring app, but that only seems to log to files.  I couldn't figure
out
> > any way to set up a meetme conference while still running through the
> > various stages in answering the call.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Things I've considered, but maybe didn't drill down far enough:
> >
> > - Unload chan_oss, and get the monitoring app to just write to /dev/dsp.
Or
> > maybe to a pipe, which I can then pass through the standard linux "play"
> > application.  res_listen anyone?
> >
> > - Figure out meetme for this purpose.
> >
> > - Three way call to the console?  I couldn't figure this one out either.
> >
> > Any of these solutions bring up the related question - is there any way
to
> > get Record to hang up automatically if any other (non-asterisk
connected)
> > extension is picked up in the house?  Traditional answering machines
detect
> > this, but I'm not sure how.  The easy workaround is simply to hit the #
key
> > on the local extension to force a hangup.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any insights (or code!).  Thanks!
> >
> > Joel
> >
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