[asterisk-users] IAX bat phone.

[Facundo Ameal]

Grandstream HT386 also has that feature. Into the configuration you
can find a field called 'Audial Off-hook', there you can set any
extension so the ATA will dial as soon as you pick up the handset.

On 8/6/07, James FitzGibbon <james.fitzgibbon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/3/07, Michael Munger <michael at highpoweredhelp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to setup an IAX bat phone (immediate=yes) or is this a
> privilege only reserved for ZAP channels?
>
> As I understand it, this would have to be supported by your specific
> hard/soft phone.
>
> It's the same with SIP - taking a handset off-hook doesn't cause any traffic
> to go to Asterisk.  The first packet from the user agent is sent when the
> phone tries to dial something.  Depending on the user agent, this could be
> as soon as someone presses a single key (so-called "early dial" with SIP 484
> responses), or more typically when an entire number has been dialed and a
> timeout has occurred or send button has been pressed.  Zap FXS ports can
> tell when a handset has gone off-hook and take some action based on that due
> to the change in electrical impedance.
>
> Some soft-phones support bat-phone operation, though you have to hunt
> through the docs to get it to work.  My Linksys SPA942 desk phone has a dial
> plan syntax that allows this:
>
> (<:XXXX>S0)
>
> Which means "prefix whatever I type with XXXX and match an empty string,
> dialing as soon as you have a match", which causes the phone to calll XXXX
> as soon as I take it off hook.  But it's obviously device-specific, and has
> nothing to do with SIP or IAX or Asterisk for that matter.  When the call
> arrives at my server, it doesn't look any different than a call to XXXX from
> a phone with a more traditional dialplan.
>
> --
> j.
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