[asterisk-users] DUNDi, regcontext, softphones.. fail.

[JR Richardson]

> I'm having an issue deploying softphones into my DUNDi/regcontext
> setup.  My current design is that all SIP users get registered into a
> sipregistration context in the sip.conf.  I then have a dialplan
> function that includes that and does the dial:
> 
> include => sipregistration
> exten => _XXXX,2,Answer()
> exten => _XXXX,3,Wait(1)
> exten => _XXXX,4,NoOp(sipregistration call - Name: ${CALLERID(name)}  Num:
> ${CALLERID(num)})
> exten => _XXXX,5,Macro(stdexten,${EXTEN},SIP/${EXTEN})  ; 913-563-77XX
> 
> This works really well for hard phones.  They register, exist in the
> sipregistration context and are dialed on whichever server they register
> by DUNDi.  I only started to run into problems when I had to deploy
> softphones.
> 
> The softphones register when they are up and running, and the system
> works as designed.  But when they close their softphone, there's no way
> for the system to know where the extension is, so the call dies.  It
> doesn't go to voicemail like I would like it to because that extension
> never proceeds through my dialplan.
> 
> Looking for suggestions on getting around this so I can keep deploying
> soft phones to agents in the field.

Just use an 'invalid' extension to send the call to voicemail or something.

exten => i,1,Voicemail(u${INVALID_EXTEN})

JR