[Asterisk-Users] Dynamic Zap/{channel} allocation for out going possible?

[Etienne Pretorius]

Thank you very much, that sorted out the problem.

Kind Regards
Etienne


Steven Critchfield wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:39 +0200, Etienne Pretorius wrote:
>  
>
>>Never Mind..... oops.
>>
>>I just needed to play around with some syntax.
>>
>>Zap/1,2,3,4/$EXTEN
>>
>>Ps: Is there a better santax because 1-4 doesn't work.
>>    
>>
>
>Look at groups in the /etc/asterisk/zaptel.conf
>
>Once you define your groups, you can just 
>exten => _0,1,Dial(Zap/g1/$EXTEN)
>And asterisk will pick some available channel out of the channels
>defined in group 1 to use for dialing out.
>
>  
>
>>>Hi All * users...
>>>
>>>Question:
>>>   In extensions.conf - I am awaire that you can use macro's but what 
>>>I am wondering about.. is that can you create a macro to do dynamic 
>>>Zap channel allocation for a out going call?
>>>   I don't want to reserve a channel/port in the TDM400P card for "Out 
>>>break" calls, so i was just wandering if some1 could help me a bit 
>>>over here.
>>>
>>>[outgoing]                                                      ;Dial 
>>>"0" on the phone for external line
>>>
>>>exten => _0,1,Dial(Zap/4/$EXTEN)               ;<======= statically 
>>>allocated to Zap/4 needs to be dynamic
>>>exten => _0,2,Goto(102)
>>>exten => _0,102,Congestion
>>>exten => _0,103,Hangup
>>>
>>>I'll apreciate any help in this regard.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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