[Asterisk-Users] UK PSTN Calling From OH323 Problem

[Cameron Beattie]

Couple of things I noticed:
Dunno why you'd have s extension in [voip-h323] context.
Format of Dial command seems wrong
Try putting the specific number you dial in extensions.conf e.g.
exten => 02077777777,1,Dial(Zap/1/02077777777)
exten => _9X.,1,Dial(Zap/1/${EXTEN:1})

Then dial 02077777777 and watch what happens on the CLI.

Regards

Cameron
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Iain Young" <iain at g7iii.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:49 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] UK PSTN Calling From OH323 Problem


> Hi All,
>
> I'm just starting with Asterisk, so this may be something very
> simple. I'm using a X100P, and a softphone (GnomeMeeting) with
> OH323 providing the linkage into Asterisk. The (very) simple
> setup looks like this:
>
>
> PSTN---X100P----Asterisk---OH323 GateKeeper---GnomeMeeting
>     (zap channel)          (OH323 Channel)
>
> I'm slowly working thru my own Dial Plan, bit by bit. I finally
> got my head around the concepts and theory of extensions.conf,
> but found the supplied file rather complex and confusing.
>
> So, in order to test my understanding, and actually get some
> experience of writing it myself, I started from a clean sheet of
> paper.
>
> I've sorted incoming calls from the POTS line, so they get
> sent to the softphone. But I'm having difficulty getting
> outbound calls to the PSTN line from the softphone to work
> correctly.
>
> extensions.conf contains the following:
>
> ---BEGIN INCLUDE FILE---
> [general]
> static=no
> writeprotect=yes
>
> [global]
> RINGTIME=>3
> POTSOUT=>Zap/1
>
> [default]
> exten => s,1,Wait,1
> exten => s,2,Answer                     ; Answer The Incoming Call
> exten => s,3,Dial,OH323/iain            ; Transfer to the SoftPhone
> exten => s,4,HangUp                     ; Hang Up
>
> [voip-h323]
> exten => s,1,Wait,1
> exten => s,2,Answer                     ; Answer The Incoming Call
> exten => s,3,DigitTimeout,15            ; Give us time to enter the real 
> num
> exten => _9X.,1,Dial,Zap/1/${EXTEN:1}   ; Try This
> ---END INCLUDE FILE---
>
> So, What I was hoping this would do, is dialing 9 followed by a
> number, would send the call out the POTS line. Well it sorta works.
>
> If I dial (from the softphone) 91471 (1471 is the number you call in
> the UK to see who called your POTS line last), it works (seems to take
> an age to dial, and connect, but does work)
>
> However, if I call other numbers, eg my own mobile, or another PSTN
> number, then although a 'show channels' shows the correct number, it
> never seems to reach the number that (I think) it dialed
>
> Asterisk version is Asterisk 1.0.7-BRIstuffed-0.2.0-RC7k from Debian
> Sid.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong ? Is there
> anything specific to the UK ? Do I need to add something to ensure
> it knows how to dial in the UK ?
>
>
> All the Best
>
> Iain
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