[Asterisk-Users] Making Asterisk NOT Pickup a Line when Ringing?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:56, Rich Adamson wrote:
> I think the key issue in this thread is the OP's wish to have some
> external analog device answer incoming calls. When that external
> device answers the incoming call, ringing disappears from asterisk's
> perspective and asterisk treats it just like an abandoned call. If
> the incoming call context doesn't have any statements to answer that
> call, its not going to do anything with it. (In other words, the call
> disappeared within a second or two after the first ring. Waiting
> around for another 10 to 60 seconds, or whatever, doesn't do anything
> useful.)

I realize he's waiting for something else to pick up, but I thought he was 
wanting to do something in addition to not answering (updating CDR, running a 
script of some kind) -- In that case I believe the Wait()'s necessary to 
prevent Asterisk from recording multiple CDR entries or running the script 
multiple times.

You're absolutely right if you really do want to do nothing, just do that and 
it'll work just fine. :-)

-A.