[asterisk-users] Asterisk and Siemens Legacy PBX

[Wolfgang Zweimueller]

James Arscott <james at stemnetworks.co.uk> writes:

> Asterisk is not matching the extension from the siemens because the siemens
> has not even sent one yet, it is still waiting for a dial tone. When I hit 9
> on the siemens it does not get a dial tone from asterisk, I assume this is
> because I have not told asterisk to give it one....(dur!) How should I tell
> asterisk how to handle this, I have defined it a context and I know its
> making it this far, but I don¹t know how to get the next bit coded. Any help
> appreciated !

Have you turned on overlapdial in zapata.conf? Most PBX's send numbers
in overlap mode, yours does it also.

Next, you should add something like this to your Siemens-context:

      exten => s,1,WaitExten(2)

This waits for the numbers which should now come from the Siemens
side.


hth,
Wolfgang