[Asterisk-Users] No rings before auto attendant

[Strom Carlson]

On 5/25/06, Dan Elder <isbeen at izmedia.com> wrote:
> Hi all, been searching & not finding an answer to this, although I'm
> guessing it's absurdly simple... I just hooked up a T1 to our * box (1.2.0),
> which had been using POTS lines via a channel bank.. Now when I call the new
> T1 circuit, there are no rings, the Autoattendant just picks up right away..
> Any clue on how to make it ring twice before getting picked up? I tried
> immedate=no and some other zapata.conf tweaks, but nothing seems to work. I
> also tinkered with adding some wait statements before the 'answer' but only
> heard silence & then the attendant..sorry for such a basic question.. I
> guess I'm just not punching in the right search terms in my queries.
>
> Thx in advance

You need to provide audible ring:

exten => 2368,1,Ringing
exten => 2368,2,Wait(11)
exten => 2368,3,Answer

and so on.  Of course, if you're on a T1, why would you want to
artificially delay the calling party's access to the auto-attendant?

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Strom Carlson
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