[Asterisk-Users] ChanIsAvail

[Aaron Daniel]

I was gonna say use a queue of sorts, throw the devices into the queue 
and tell it to ring all.  I haven't played with it, but I would assume 
that if a line's in use, it won't ring that person.

Aaron

Joseph Tanner wrote:
> 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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