[Asterisk-Users] Dialplan to Pick up calls that are ringingonother extensions?

[Robert Jackson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Freire [mailto:JFreire at Comtech21.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:16 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dialplan to Pick up calls that 
> are ringingonother extensions?
> 
> 
> Well I dont want it to operate as a group. I understand that 
> it is *8 on most PBX systems but I would like it to work as 
> dialing *8+extension-thats-ringing to have it go over to my 
> extension. I am having a lot of trouble finding more 
> information from the wiki and google.
> 
In asterisk extensions and channels are completely separate.
A channel causes a phone to ring, not the extension.  This
makes very good sense if you think about a single channel
ringing multiple devices.  

I guess you have a few options.  

 *  Create a perl script using res_perl in your dialplan to 
	connect your extension with a call that is destined for
	the extension you enter.  I would assume that the script
	would be called like so...

exten => _*8XXXX,1,Perl(pickupscript:${EXTEN:2})

 *  Figure out how best to handle it, and write a patch.

 *  Use the existing functionality untill someone else creates
	a patch.

There are probably more ways, but these are the ones I thought
of.

Good luck,

Robert Jackson