[Asterisk-Users] Wait in Dial String

[Josiah Bryan]

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 10:29 am, David Choo wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> My boss has placed a requirement for me to forward all our IDD calls
> through a partner's IDD service, which requires us to call a 8 digit
> number, wait for 1 sec, before we send in the foreign number we're trying
> to call.
>
> As I can't find anything on getting the PBX to wait, i'm only removing the
> 1st 3 digits (900) and sending in an extra 1 to simulate the wait. It
> works, but not all the time. Is there anyway that I can place a wait
> command here? I'm tried placing w / p but both don't works. Would like to
> seek your kind assistance!
>
> exten = _9001.,1,Dial(Zap/g1/64919669,,D(${EXTEN:3}),)
> exten = _9001.,n,Hangup()
>

Try 'w',

E.g. for my old bridge to BizFon, I had to dial 9, wait, then the number:

exten => _NXXXXX,1,Dial(Zap/g1/9w${EXTEN})

Just put the 'w' between the numbers that you want it to 'wait' at.

-josiah

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Josiah Bryan
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Productive Concepts, Inc.
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