[asterisk-users] 'Start' in extension rules

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Saturday 13 October 2007 18:08:49 Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>> Quoting Philipp Kempgen <philipp.kempgen at amooma.de>:
>>>> exten => s,1,Answer()
>>>> exten => s,n,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
>>> This still doesn't make sense because you did not Dial()
>>> before jumping based on ${DIALSTATUS}.
>> Ok, make sense. But still no go:
>>
>> ----- s n i p -----
>> [default]
>> exten => s,1,Answer()
>> exten => s,2,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN},20,t)
>> exten => s,4,Goto(default,s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
> 
> 1, 2, 4...
> 

Also, the "s" extension is only executed under a few situations.  If a 
call comes in on an FXO port or you execute a macro or you have 
immediate=yes for that channel.

"s" should not stand for "start".  It should be called "stupid" as in 
"the device is too stupid to tell Asterisk what the dialed extension is".