[Asterisk-Users] Ansering machine/voicemail detect?

[Andy Powell]

Garry,

yes this is possible although it would end up being quite convoluted. 

Essentially you could have a cron job that monitors your voicemail directory, or use the perl manager interface to check the status. Once it has been established that you have message(s) submit a .call file to dial you office number, and start an AGI script. In the AGI you ask for your pin number and time out (and hang up) if there is no response. If there is a correct response then you could playback the files. You'd need to move them to the OLD directory afterwards. 

Alternatively, someone has written app_hasvoicemail which checks a vm box for messages and acts on that...

Andy



On 07/08/2003 at 13:17 Garry Adkins wrote:

>I've been playing with an asterisk box for about 6 months, (bought an FXO
>card, etc.)...
>
>I was thinking about having the system "deliver" my voicemail from the
>asterisk machine to me at work...  I haven't found anything in the
>documentation to help.
>
>
>It would work something like:
>
>
>Voicemail comes into the asterisk machine,
>* Calls me at work
>Plays message for me to enter PIN for voicemail
>Retrieve Voicemail
>Hangup.
>
>
>However, if it got my voicemail at work (due to being on the phone or out
>of the office), I'd like it to do something like:
>Voicemail in *
>* Calls me at work
>Notices that it's voicemail (Possibly due to no pause at the beginning,
>just continuous talking?)
>Just plays a message that I have voicemail at home.
>Hangs up.
>
>Possible?  How could it tell that it got an answering device?
>
>Thanks!
>-G
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