[Asterisk-Users] Outdialing with Voicetronix

[Ahmad Faiz]

Hi all,

Just thought I'd pass along some pointers when outdialing with Voicetronix's
OpenLine4 card.

I was having a tough time dialing out from *, it probably has something to
do with chan_vpb.c not waiting to hear the dialtone before telling the card
to dial. A quick fix was to insert a "," in the dialstring telling the card
to pause before dialing.

However when the "," was used in the dialstring, the Dial application
interpreted this as a command separator and was screwing things up. What I
did was to define

OUTDIAL=vpb/1-1/,,5555555555

and used

exten => 555,s,1,Dial(${OUTDIAL})

to place the call. Works like a charm. Hopefully this bit of info may help
other VPB users out there.

Cheers,
Faiz