[Asterisk-Users] How to delay dialing

[Walker Haddock]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:10:42PM -0800, David Liu wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am trying to delay sending out DTMF from Voicetronix OpenLine4 to the CO
> line.  The reason being is that Voicetronix sends out the DTMF too fast even
> before the line is fully established with the carrier.  Usually when dialing
> an 8 digit number, only 7 digits are actually successfully heard by the
> carrier.
> 
> Currently, my dial plan is:
> exten => _9.,1,Dial(vpb/1-1/${EXTEN:1})
> 
> Daniel said to insert a , before the numbers.  I am not too sure where to
> insert it.  I tried
> exten => _9.,1,Dial(vpb/1-1/,${EXTEN:1}) and that seems to be cause a
> parsing error.
> 
> Anybody has any ideas for a hack?
> 
> David
The token to insert a pause is `W` (must be upper case).  Try this:

 exten => _9.,1,Dial(vpb/1-1/W${EXTEN:1})

each `W` will cause a 0.5 second pause.

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