[Asterisk-Users] Emergency calls - forcing through on channel

[Chris Wade]

1 2 wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Hypothetical but quite possible scenerio:
> 
> Attempted emergency 911 call but all zap channels are already in use.
> 
> Is there any way to hangup zap channels before dial(Zap/g1/911) or equivalent. 
> 
> AFAIK hangup doesn't except options so I CANNOT do something like hangup(Zap/g1) to clear  zap
> channels before the dial statement - this is what i was hoping to do.
> 
> So what do other people do?
> 
asterisk*CLI> show application SoftHangup
asterisk*CLI>
   -= Info about application 'SoftHangup' =-

[Synopsis]
Soft Hangup Application

[Description]
   SoftHangup(Technology/resource|options)
Hangs up the requested channel.  Always returns 0
- 'options' may contain the following letter:
      'a' : hang up all channels on a specified device instead of a 
single resource



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Christopher L. Wade, CCNA, CCDA, CQS-CIPTES, CQS-CWLSS