[Asterisk-Users] Wait in Dial String

[Robert Webb]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:24:37 -0500
  Josiah Bryan <jbryan at productiveconcepts.com> wrote:
> 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
> 


And as an added tidbit... If I remeber correctly, each "w" 
is about a 1/2 second. So to get a second pause you would 
need "ww" in the string.