[Asterisk-Users] Anyone experience with early dial?

[Holger Schurig]

I'm trying to use early-dial.


Here, all hardware PBX have it. You dial numbers and, as soon as you have 
a matching dialplan entry, you get throught.

I my Grandstream I enabled early-dial. And when I put

  exten=91,1,Milliwatt

in my dialplan then it works as expected. Also, when I call other SIP or 
IAX phones it works. Hurray!



But how can I get it working with external lines?   In my test setup, I 
have a chan_capi (0.3.4a) based setup. Now we have the nice wiki and I 
found, at the end of 
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+CAPI+readme that I 
could use

  exten=0,1,Dial,CAPI/829545:b

When I do this and dial a 0, I hear the outside dialtone. Great. But when 
I now dial a normal number, it doesn't work. I have to dial an additional 
number, say 6. After this number, I still hear a dialtone. When I now 
continue dialling, the dial tone vanishes (as expected).

So, to reach the local number 914115, I have to dial 0-6-914115.

With a hardware PBX I have to dial 0-914115

And ideas?



[general]
nationalprefix=0
internationalprefix=00
rxgain=0.8
txgain=0.8

[interfaces]
msn=829454
context=in-pstn
incomingmsn=*
controller=1
softdtmf=1
devices=2