[Asterisk-Users] Call Interception

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi, 

> -----Original Message-----
> PickupChan(Technology/resource[&Technology2/resource2...]):  Tries to
> > pickup the first ringing channel in the parameter list.
> > 
> > It's working fine, although I'm not sure if it comes with 
> asterisk or with
> > bristuff ...
> 
> What the OP was asking about was... if * phone x123 and x234 are both
> ringing, how can he remotely pickup the call from x123 _only_. 

You can create the dialplan yourself to facilitate this. You know what
extension matches what channel i.e. if you have:

exten = 123,1,Dial(SIP/foo)
exten = 124,1,Dial(SIP/bar)

And you want to use 98<num> to pickup a specific extension, you could do:

exten = 98000,1,PickupChan(SIP/foo&SIP/bar)
exten = 98123,1,PickupChan(SIP/foo)
exten = 98124,1,PickupChan(SIP/bar)

Ofcourse, this can be automated quite easily with database lookups and
whatnot. Let your imagination roll about the concept. (I wrote PickupChan
based on Klaus Peter's work because I needed to lookup more flexible groups
and we use databases for a lot of the links between channels and extensions.

Best regards,
Florian