[asterisk-users] Doorphone

[Ola Lidholm]

On 26 mar 2007, at 22.17, 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?

Hi Ray,

I can't really understand why you want to use a meetme conference?  
Why not use a call queue instead?

/Ola Lidholm
olal at plea.se

"Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men are able to  
achieve." - Jules Verne.