[Asterisk-Users] BudgeTone-100 Early Dial

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 16:46, Steve Meyers wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:41, Hielke Christian Braun wrote:
> > I have one problem with the BudgeTone phones and early dial. When i
> > dial a long external number with 9+, * starts to dial to early with
> > just a few digits. The outgoing call is placed through the SIP
> > provider Nikotel. Is there some timeout i can increase so that *
> > waits for all the digits before placing the SIP call? The firmware
> > on the phones is 1.0.3.81 and they use SIP Info to sent DTMF.
> > Sending via inband or RFC2833 did not work at all. The * version is
> > a week old from CVS. When not using early dial it works fine.
>
> I told the Grandstream guys about the problem about a month ago, they
> said they'd look into it.  The BudgeTones handle 4-5 digits okay (I
> can't remember which), but at some point they crap out from too many
> 484's.
>
> The way I handled it was to make the extension 9 go to a context that
> plays a fake dialtone in the background, and handles the actual phone
> number from there.  In my main context, I have:
>
> exten => 9,1,Goto(dialtone,s,1)

<snip>

Why not just use DISA:

exten => 9,1,DISA(no-password|outgoing)

-Tilghman