[Asterisk-Users] No detection of Line Busy

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 01:30, Herc wrote:
> Quoting Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>:
> > 
> > Your problem basically comes from the fact that in the analog world, a
> > busy signal is a audio only signaling. Asterisk could do this detection
> > if it was directly touching the phones, or if it was connected digitally
> > to the switch that touches the phones. 
> > 
> > I think there are some busydetect features you can turn on in the
> > zapata.conf file, but they are one of the things that is prone to
> > diconnecting a call early as you are trying to fuzzy match a pattern of
> > sound at the beginning of the call. 
> > -- 
> > Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
> > 
> 
> Yes, we tried enabling busydetect in zapata.conf file.
> then, once the extension is busy, as u suggested, asterisk disconnects the line.
> 
> in a situation like this, instead of disconnecting, cant we dial another number?????
> don't u think we should have this fascility......???

I'm not arguing against this functionality. I'm just trying to explain
what is currently possible with the functionality that is already
implemented. Maybe the result of busydetect needs to be checked out.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>