[asterisk-users] Doorphone

[Steve Totaro]

Ray Wadkins wrote:
> We have a doorphone device that's connected to our PBX. Currently, 
> there's a special meetme conference that the phone connects to when 
> the visitor presses zero. Users in the office can dial the meetme 
> conference and get connected. The problem is that we can't send DTMF 
> signals to the door to open it, because the meetme app seems to 
> capture them.
> I had the bright idea to set up a "virtual extension" that would just 
> ring, virtually. Then we could use call pickup to snag the call at an 
> extension and be able to open the door. Unfortunately, I can't figure 
> out how to get that to work. Wait(30) and Answer(30000) don't seem to 
> allow call pickup to snag the extension.
> Any suggestions?
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Send DTMF?  Ring group?

Thanks,
Steve