[Asterisk-Users] execute a context from cron

[Michael George]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:13:58AM -0700, Chad Scott wrote:
> Why don't you include a context on a schedule?
> 
> I have a support queue included only at certain times, such as monday 
> through friday, 6a to 6p.  All other times I include a context that 
> sends that extension straight to voicemail.
> 
> Check out http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+tips+openhours

Yes, openhours was easy.  What I need is to *initiate* a call at a certain
time.

I want to have asterisk pick up the line and enter the key sequence to have
the POTS do the forwarding, not asterisk.  And then when we open up again I
want it to call the POTS and turn off the call forwarding.

I think the sample.call will do what I want, though.  I'll look into that.

Thanks!

> >I want to have call forwarding (from the POTS) turned on at the close 
> >of work
> >and turned off automatically by *.
> >
> >I can create a context that should do just that, but I need a way to 
> >have that
> >context spontaneously executed at a specific time.
> >
> >I figured that one way to do it would be to have cron run "asterisk 
> >-rx<some
> >command>" if there were some command that would tell asterisk to go to 
> >a
> >specific context,extension,priority, but I cannot find that command.
> >
> >Does such a command exist?  Or is there a better way to do this that I 
> >have
> >overlooked?

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