[Asterisk-Users] ChanIsAvail

[Joseph Tanner]

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but why not just have asterisk
dial all the phones regardless?  No need to check what's available or
not, just dial all of them.  If you don't want users on the phone to
hear a call-waiting beep, just make sure call-waiting is disabled. 
Any phones that are able to ring will do so, the ones that are busy
obviously will not.

If I am missing something, let me know, but this seems to be the
easiest solution and will do what you said you need.  Dial all phones,
and all that are available will ring, the rest will just return a busy
message which asterisk should ignore, as long as one phone somewhere
is not busy.  I haven't run into this, but I would assume if all
phones were busy that asterisk would then go to priority +101, so you
could send them straight to voicemail.

Joseph Tanner

On 2/14/06, Jayson Navitsky <jnavitsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I've done my research on Chanisavail, read the wiki, checked the
> archive but can't seem to find anything to suit my scenario.  I've
> played around with it a lot, but I'm still scratching my head on what
> I need to do.
>
> What I need is to be able to accept a call by SIP and ring all
> telephones that are not in use (which just so happen to be on Zap
> interfaces, but might be SIP in the future).
>
> What I have now is this (I know it's really bad):
>
> exten => 16465555555,1,Answer()
> exten => 16465555555,2,Dial(Local/105 at local&Local/106 at local&Local/110 at local&Local/112 at local,30)
> exten => 16465555555,3,ChanisAvail(Local/105 at local&Local/106 at local)
> exten => 16465555555,4,Cut(DESK3=AVAILCHAN||1)
> exten => 16465555555,5,ChanisAvail(Local/110 at local&Local/112 at local)
> exten => 16465555555,6,Cut(DESK4=AVAILCHAN||1)
> exten => 16465555555,7,Dial(${DESK3}&${DESK4},30,tr)
> exten => 16465555555,8,Busy
>
> (Each local is 1 zap interface)
>
> Which is sort of my temporary work around to the problem for now,
> first if there are no phones in use all phones will ring, if not it
> will return busy and then it is checked to see if there is anything
> available to ring between those 2 "groups" there.  If only one phone
> is in use only 2 channels will ring right now (obviously).
>
> What I need is for any available channel to ring.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
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