[Asterisk-Users] TDM400P Dialing Out - "Cannot be completed as dialed"

[John Novack]

Barry King wrote:

>"w" doesn't seem to make a difference, 
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That has been my experience, though I am using pulsedial
There seems to be some undocumented differences between versions and 
flavors of Asterisk that are not yet known.

>though I'm also guessing that a lack of dialtone detection is causing my troubles.
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And there seems to be no willingness to either fix or even consider it a 
bug.

>  I'm not sure how I'm going to listen in, either.  The only thing I can think of is making myself a "lineman's handset" out of an old phone and plugging into the phone box outside. 
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Not sure why you need to "go outside" to listen in. a simple 268 style 
"t" adapter for modular plugs would do. I assume you are in the US .

> I'm worried that plugging the FXO jack into the
>ComDial system would fry something, 
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Can't imagine what. The FXO card in it's simplest form, the X100P is a 
recycled modem card using a specific chip set.
How would you use a Comdial system to monitor anyway?

>and that's the only other way I can
>think of to listen in, aside from maybe running the line through a fax machine.
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You will want to be able to listen without starting dialtone.

Any old telephone butt set or even a cheap battery powered transistor 
amplifier  would do as well.

>Unless there's some software that does it.
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>On the dialtone detection end of things,
>http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=NVLineDetect
>does seem to be available, but that would require me modifying emailing the guy and either going with cvs or modifying the gentoo ebuild I'm using (bleh).
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If that will give you dialtone detection, that's probably what you will 
have to do then!

>What is NANP?
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North American Numbering Plan

JN

>Cheers,
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>Barry King
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>John Novack (port) wrote:
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>>Of course check your dialplan first, but if that fails, monitor the
>>PSTN line with a buttset and/or digitgrabber, you probably will find
>>that Asterisk is dialing without waiting for dialtone, so the first
>>digit is not detected at the CO.
>>Some versions will allow a "w" to wait 1/2 second before starting to
>>dial, bur it doesn't always work, and there seems to be little
>>interest in detecting dialtone before dialing.
>>The NANP was SUPPOSED to require  7/10 digit local and 11 digit toll
>>dialing, but since that is now a state by state determination, there
>>is little "plan" left in the NANP
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>>John Novack
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