[Asterisk-Users] Wacko Distinctive Ring Patterns being detected??

[Jay Milk]

Could you configure your "normal ring" to be recognized as a distinctive
ring and go into a different context?  That would essentially allow you
to distinguish between the calls.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gonzalo Servat [mailto:gservat at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:34 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Wacko Distinctive Ring Patterns 
> being detected??
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've recently got a "second" number installed on my PSTN 
> line, trusting the Asterisk distinctive ring detection would 
> work as expected. It appeared to work fine at the start, as 
> the second number generated a different ring pattern to 0,0,0 
> (in the console) only to realise that almost every phone call 
> to this "second" number generated a different ring pattern. 
> Sometimes it might detect the same 2 patterns, but this is a 
> rare case. If Asterisk allowed me to configure up to 10 
> ringing patterns, I could probably cover most of the ringing 
> patterns being detected, but unfortunately there is a limit 
> of 3 which means 50% (or more) of the calls are coming in 
> under a distinctive ring pattern not configured in Asterisk, 
> and hence going to the default context.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas/etc on how to resolve 
> this issue?
> 
> Thanks in advance guys.
> Gonzalo
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