[Asterisk-Users] Re: delaying "answer" for a number of rings or an amount of time

[Bromont Quebec]

You need to take that "Wait" and "Answer" out of there....

[from-pots]
exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/brian&SIP/joe,30)
exten => s,2,Voicemail(u2001)
exten => s,3,Hangup
exten => s,102,Voicemail(b2001)
exten => s,103,Hangup
exten => h,1,Hangup
exten => i,1,Hangup

>I want Asterisk to delay answering the POTS line >via a Wildcard (a Zap
>channel) by some period of time, either a number of >rings or just a
>number of seconds.
>
>I have tried this:
>
>[from-pots]
>exten => s,1,Wait(30)
>exten => s,n,Answer
>...
>exten => s,n,Dial(SIP/brian&SIP/joe,10,H)
>exten => s,n,Voicemail(u2001)
>exten => s,n,Hangup
>exten => s,103,Voicemail(u2001)
>exten => s,104,Hangup
>exten => h,1,Hangup
>exten => i,1,Hangup

>but that doesn't work.  It seems that as soon as >the first or second
>ring is detected, Asterisk has decided it will >answer the line, it just
>waits 30 seconds to do it.
>
>The problem I have is that the POTS line that >Asterisk is on is shared
>by handsets, and if somebody picks up a handset >soon enough, I don't
>want Asterisk to pick up the line.  Yeah, Asterisk >as an answering
>machine... until I can get at least one FXS >interface, anyway.

>Any ideas?

>b.