[Asterisk-Users] Parking extension not working

[Lance Arbuckle]

Sean Garland wrote:
> 
> Okay, lets start over...  I have basically a simple parking.conf, I use
> 701 as the parkext because of Andy Powells suggestion, I use a range of
> 702-710.  I have in my [sip] context and include => default and in the
> [default] context, I have the stock include => localcalls which has on
> include => parkedcalls.  When asterisk is loaded and I type show
> dialplan at the console, I get a list of what appears to be all the
> extensions available to me and their respective contexts.  Nowhere in
> that list is an extension 701.  Now when a call comes in, my Polycom
> phone rings and I answer it.  If I want to park the call I press the
> conference button, and type 701, which then gives me a busy signal for a
> few seconds, and the call is terminated.  I ran a sip debug and did the
> same procedure, and I can see that the polycom phone requests extension
> 701 at ipaddress but then there is a 404 not found error.  Am I doing
> something wrong in the transfer procedure?  When I dial # on the polycom
> phone I get an instant busy, which I assume means that my phone doesn't
> like that digit.
> 
> So maybe my question should be, is anyone using polycom sip phones and
> able to use the parked call feature?
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Arbuckle [mailto:asterisk at arbuckle.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:10 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Parking extension not working
> 
> Sean Garland wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I have the include => parkedcalls in the default context which is
> 
> > where my calls start from, in fact if I try to transfer to one of the
> > parked locations as a test of transferring to the 7xx area, I get the
> > "...no parked call.." message so it seems like the context is working.
> > All of the parking location extensions show up in the dialplan.  What
> > should I see on the console when transferring to 700 (or 701 as it may
> > be) from SIP?  Will it work from sip?  Is there a way I can test from
> > the console?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sean
> 
> I don't think you can transfer to a park extension directly.  In other
> words, you transfer to the parking lot ( default exten 700 ) and
> Asterisk parks the call in whichever parking space is available.  Then
> Asterisk reads back the number of the parking space.  On my system, with
> 700 as the park extension and 701-720 as parking spaces, I get the
> message "Sorry, there is no call parked on that extension" if I try to
> transfer to 701 which is what I would expect since it's only exten 700
> which has the special park functionality.
> 
> -Lance



ok, let's try again....
In extensions.conf, do you have either a "t" or "T" as an option on your
dial string like this:

exten => s,203,Dial(${ARG2},20,rtT)     ; Ring the interface, 20 seconds
maximum

If not, transfer isn't going to work and therefor park wont work either.

-Lance Arbuckle