[Asterisk-Users] Directed Call Pickup

[Mike Meyer]

Hi everyone,

	I have been trying to get call pickup to work and am having success
with group pickup by setting the callgroup and pickupgroup in the
zapata.conf and sip.conf files. However, I cannot get directed call
pickup to work. 

According to the little documentation
(http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=PBX+Call+Pickup) that I
found on the subject, the user is supposed to be able to enter the call
pickup extension and then enter the extension to pick up.

Basically *8 doesn't work. Is there some configuration that I am
missing? Do I need to define a new call pickup extension in
extensions.conf that answers the call on the remote extension?

Any direction will help.

FYI; Another caveat I have also run into is that a simple reload after
changing the sip.conf and zapata.conf files did not always pick up the
new group settings and allow me to do group call pickup. Anyone else run
into this? I had to stop and start *.

Thanks much,
Mike Meyer