[asterisk-users] dialplan / problem with extension-length > 1

[Michael Kamleitner]

thx for all of your suggestions... I'm learning more about asterisk every
minute :)

Barton, I tried to replace 'WaitExten' with 'Background' as you suggested,
and at first was disappointed that didn't change the behavior.

Than I tried Roberts suggestion, using 'Read' instead of 'WaitExten' - and
again was disappointed - no change, or at least it seem asterisk didn't get
every digit fo the extension, just some of them (f.e. I entered "1234",
asterisk [at the console] complained that there is no voicebox "124" etc.).

however, I've continued to experiment again and again, and strangely it
seemed to work _some_ times, even when passing 4digit-extensions. now I
think I got the solution: it seems I have to press the extension digits a
little bit longer! let's say I hold each button at least 0.5sec, everything
works great. if I do a quick dial, asterisk seems to "loose" digits.

any ideas why this might be?

looking forward to your opinions... I really start to like toying around
with asterisk :)

michael




On 4/25/07, Steve Davies <davies147 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/25/07, Barton Fisher <bhfisher at icpage.com> wrote:
> A very simple workaround to achieve what you want might be to replace
>   WaitExten(5)
> with
>   Background(silence/5)
>
> I use this all over the place to great success as it prevents the need
> for any overly-clever processing of the result of WaitExten.
>
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