[Asterisk-Users] Dial ZAP with group (g2) erroneously says call answered when it is still ringing

[C F]

You can try one more thing, and that is the M option, and create a
macro that announces to the user to accept the call..... as documented
at:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-asterisk+cmd+dial

On 11/23/05, James MacLean <macleajb at ednet.ns.ca> wrote:
> Oh boy :(.
>
> As Roman politely explained in a private email... I was using ports 1
> and 2 thinking they were the outbound fxs ports :(. That's it, these
> glasses are going, and no more testing from home :). When I switched to
> testing with ports 3 and 4, everything worked the same as G2.
>
> Not of course as cute as what I had hoped for when I see the local telco
> can do something like "Dial(ZAP/g2/8888&SIP/8888 at 8888)" and have it wait
> 'til the correct phone is answered :(. Thanks to C F for the "c" option
> but my goal was to just have the 4 digit number call folks with and
> without SIP. I would not expect users to know to press #. I don't think
> dvlinedetect will quite cut it either. callprogress looked promising,
> but, alas, as many others have found, it hangs up after timeout seconds.
> I'll keep digging :).
>
> Thanks again everyone,
> JES
>
> James B. MacLean wrote:
>
> > Hi C F,
> >
> > I am not well versed in this level of telephony or Asterisk, so please
> > bare with me :).
> >
> > My setup is really typical. Bought the digium card with 4 ports. 2 fxs
> > / 2 fxo. The 2 fxo's are connected directly to phones, belong to group
> > 1 according to zapata.conf, and exist as "fxoks=1-2" in /etc/zaptel.conf.
> >
> > The 2 fxs ports are connected to the telco, belong to group 2
> > according to zapata.conf, and are setup as "fxsks=3-4" in zaptel.conf.
> >
> > Dial(Zap/1/8888&SIP/8888 at 8888,15,r) works as expected,
> > Dial(Zap/2/8888&SIP/8888 at 8888,15,r) works as expected
> >
> > but:
> >
> > Dial(Zap/g2/8888&SIP/8888 at 8888,15,r) Rings once and reports answered
> > to Asterisk.
> >
> > Does this support what you are explaining? I'm honestly confused by
> > how an fxs module operates as an fxo module?
> >
> > Thanks for any more direction you might have,
> > JES
>
>
>
>
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