[Asterisk-Users] Can't get Pickup app working

[Joshua Colp]

Álvaro Palma wrote:
> I'm trying to set the Pickup feature. I'm setting my extensions.conf as:
> 
> exten => _*.,1,Pickup(SIP/${EXTEN:1})
> 
> but if, for example, extension 03 is ringing by a call made from 
> extension 01, and I try to pick it up from extension 02 (by dialing *03 
> from extension 02), I can see in the Asterisk console (Verbosity set to 
> 10):
> 
> -- Executing Dial("SIP/01-512c", "SIP/03") in new stack
> -- Called 03
> -- SIP/03-4ae2 is ringing
> -- Executing Pickup("SIP/02-10d8", "SIP/03") in new stack
> 
> but nothing happens, and extension 02 only gets busy tone.
> 
> I read this:
> 
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+Pickup [^]
> 
> and this:
> 
> http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5998 [^]
> 
> but I don't know if these were corrected in 1.2.6. Any clues about it? 
> Is maybe a misconfiguration from my part?
> 
The directed pickup application takes an extension, not a dial string. 
Take out the SIP/ and see if it works.

Ala:

exten => _*.,1,Pickup(${EXTEN:1})

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