[Asterisk-Users] RE: Answering Machine Function?

[John Williams]

Free long distance? 
What allows the free long distance?

Personalized voicemail? 
Is that accomplised wiht a single line? I guess this is done by the
voicemail picking up and the caller having to  go through a  menu to
get to the right VM. Something like "Press 1 to get dad. Press 2 to
get Mom. Press 3 to get kid 1."

Is this right?


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:44:55 -0700, Jason Kawakami
<jkkawakami at optellabs.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> <snip>
> 
>    Is this possible with asterisk?  Anyone have a sample dialplan?
> 
> -other than the problem outlined below I would try something like
> 
> S,1,wait(20)
> S,2,voicemail(uwhatever)
> S,3,hangup
> 
> That should ignore the call for 20 seconds and then leave a message in the
> unavailable greeting for 'whatever' then hangup
> 
>    That leaves another problem - retrieving the messages.  Sounds
>    like console GUI or web interface would be the only way to do this -
>    since the only way to get connected to the voicemail service
>    is by calling in through the PSTN - since asterisk doesn't "own"
>    any extensions.  Do I have this right?
> 
> 2.  Now, a more full-blown home-use scenario.
> 
>    Suppose I DO want to have asterisk run my two-line home
>    phone system, and I obtained the requisite FXS and FXO
>    interfaces - maybe the 2x2 Digium card, or maybe go SIP
>    on my side.
> 
>    Now, I'm as much a hobbyist as anyone... but my wife and kids
>    aren't.  There's no way I'm going to run a PBX at home if anyone
>    except me actually has to treat it like one, at least for basic
>    features, like placing a phone call.
> 
>    So...
> 
>    Is it in principle possible to create a dialplan that allows
>    prefix-free dialing to an outside line, and move all the
>    "PBX-like" features behind some special prefix?
> 
>    i.e. recognize 3, 7 and 11 digit numbers as phone numbers
>    and dial them without further ado, and put voicemail and
>    every other PBX-ish feature behind, say "#"?
> 
> this really isn't this complex.  I taught my mother how to dial '9' and she
> bitched for about a month until she started making free calls to all of her
> friends all over the world.  They will need to have an "aha moment" where
> they realize the power of the system.  Sell the kids on personalized
> voicemails for them etc.  crap like that.  Kids will love it, and you will
> never have to take messages for them ever again.
> 
> [default]
> Include=home_extensions
> Include=local
> Include=long_distance
> 
> [home_extensions]
> 
> Include=default
> Exten => 1000,1,...             ;dial 1000,1001 etc
> 
> Exten=9999,1,voicemailmain(${CALLERIDNUM}@home_vmbox_context    ;dial 9999
> for voicemail retrieval, leave out a pin in voicemail.conf to make it easy
> 
> [local]
> 
> Exten=_NXXXXXX,1,Dial(zap/outgoing channel/${EXTEN})
> 
> [long_distance]
> 
> Exten=_1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(zap/outgoing channel/${EXTEN})
> 
> Note that I haven't done the first example but the second one is duck soup.
> 
> Jason Kawakami
> www.optellabs.com
> Salt Lake City, UT
> 
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