[Asterisk-Users] Pickup zap channel already in use?

Kent drizit at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 07:25:45 MST 2004


I'm getting a ton of noise on the channel just from the * side when I
pickup my zap channel.
Otherwise it works fine, if the other person in the house hangs up the
noise goes away..


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:30:08 -0400, Mark Woods <asteriskadmin at fuse.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Kent wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:58:47 +0000, Mark Woods <asteriskadmin at fuse.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have to admit that your question interested me because I'm thinking of setting up the same thing.  As of yet, though, I haven't found an answer to it.
> >>
> >>It's fairly simple when * has picked up, but I haven't really devoted much time to figuring out how to do it when it hasn't.
> >>
> >>So...let me work on it, and I'll let you know what I come up with.  It's going to take at least a week, though, as I'm going to Oshkosh for the EAA Airventure on Thursday...but I'll see what I can come up with after that.
> >>
> >>-Mark
> >>
> >>
> >
> >A friend of mine who is another * user suggested using an extension
> >with an empty Dial statement to connect my sip phone to the zap
> >channel. I am going to try that tonight and see if that works.
> >
> >Let me know if you figure out anything else.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >
> I actually got a chance to try it just now.  Works like a champ!
> 
> It has the added benefit of giving direct access, with dialtone, to the
> outside line, instead of having * dial.
> 
> Here's what I put in my extensions.conf:
> 
> exten => 4000,1,Dial(Zap/1/)
> exten => 4000,2,Congestion
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
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