SV: SV: [Asterisk-Users] delaying "answer" for a number of ringsor anamount of time

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 08:49 +0100, jan.sarin at securia.se wrote:
> >From what I understand it means that the *hardware* in your computer *acknowledges* the call as soon as it is recieved and then sends it to asterisk dialplan for processing.

Hrm.  Yes, that is what I got from it.  But in my case the hardware is
an internal, PCI (Zap) Wildcard.  I am pressuming that since I can use
functions like "Wait()", then "Answer()" in dialplan to actually delay
answering (for the Wait() time) that Asterisk actually "acknowledges"
the call.

> You would essentially need to put the delay before the call ever reaches asterisk. So this problem isn't asterisk related... if I've understood your question and the answer I found correctly.

Hrm.  Yeah.  Perhaps.  I guess perhaps Asterisk isn't currently able to
handle deciding if the call has been hung up before it even picks it up
(i.e. no more rings).  Maybe a peek at the source to Asterisk and the
zaptel drivers might tell me more.

I just find it strange that I am the first person to want this feature.
Indeed tomshardware.com has an article describing how to make an
answering machine out of Asterisk by doing exactly what I tried.  In my
experiments though, it just don't work the way they describe it.

Thanx,
b.

-- 
My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.

Brian J. Murrell
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