[asterisk-users] Anyone Know How to Have Asterisk Work Like GranCentral and Require a Touch-Tone to Connect?

[Steve Totaro]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Robert DeVries <rdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> GrandCentral has a feature where when you call the GrandCentral number it
> can ring multiple phones.  However, it's not the first phone to answer that
> gets connected, but the first phone to answer AND play a touch-tone after
> hearing a recording.  The advantage of this is that if one of the called
> phones has voicemail, it won't get connected to the calling party because
> the VM won't send a touch tone in response to the recording, unlike a live
> person.
>
> I have always resisted implementing a multiple ring scenario with Asterisk
> that included a cellphone because of the voicemail answering problem, but
> this seems to be a solution.
>
> Anyone know how to implement it with Asterisk?
>

GREAT IDEA!  (even if it wasn't yours ;-)

I have had so many issues with this and desk phones, cell phones being
out of range, turned off, or answering machines set to answer after
two rings.

If this gets implemented, it would be a great feature and save me tons
of complaints and explanations.

Maybe a posting on the dev list is appropriate.  I would certainly
contribute to a bounty.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro