[Asterisk-Users] dial if

[Paul Hewlett]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 04:53, Miles Scruggs wrote:
> Well it turns out that that this method doesn't work.  You see if a
> phone is on DND it still shows the chan avalible.  Also if the chan
> isn't avalible, ChanIsAvail just crashes right there.  Unless there is a
> way around both of these issues then I need to look at something else.
> It just seems like such a basic function to be able to tell if a device
> is avalible or not, ie if the call will go through.  Normally I would
> just do
>
> exten => s,1,Dial($ext1)
> exten => s,2,Dial($ext2)
>
> but the pesky fact is I want to ring $ext3 at the same time, but only if
> either is avalible so I can't do:
>
> exten => s,1,Dial($ext1&$ext3)
> exten => s,2,Dial($ext2&$ext3)
>
> because if $ext1 isn't avalible then $ext3 will ring anyway which isn't
> the desired behaviour.
>
> Can anyone please help me?

   Try queues and give each extension different priorities..

    sip/ext1,0
    sip/ext2,1

Paul
>
> Thanks
>
> Miles
>
> William Piper wrote:
> > You can do this without needing an AGI.
> > Look here
> > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+ChanIsAvail
> >
> > bp
> >
> >
> > On 6/16/06, *Miles Scruggs* <asterisk at garnetweb.com
> > <mailto:asterisk at garnetweb.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I want to setup a fragment of my dialplan to dial an ext at the same
> >     time as another, but only if the other is avalible for instance this
> >     sudo code
> >
> >     var $ext1
> >     var $ext2
> >     var $ext3
> >
> >
> >     if ($ext1) {
> >        dial($ext1&$ext3)
> >     }elseif($ext2)  {
> >        dial($ext2&$ext3)
> >     }else{
> >        dial($ext3)
> >     }
> >
> >     Anyone know how I would accomplish this?
> >
> >     Thanks
> >
> >     Miles
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