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

[Matt Watson]

I just took a quick look at the dialplan that freepbx uses for doing call confirmation... the dialplan part of it is actually quite simple... its just a matter of setting the USE_CONFIRMATION varialbe =TRUE.

However, the actual magic looks like it happenes through its dialparties.agi... which is a little more complicated than i'd like to try and dissect on a sunday afternoon!

but that might be a good place to look at how its done to learn by example.

I know in the freepbx implementation what it does is whenever a handset thats part of the ringgroup answers, they get a recorded message "You have an incoming call, press 1 to accept" maybe it says something else too... can;t recall at the moment.  The first member of the Ring group to hit 1 gets the call... if more than 1 person picks up the handset right away, the first to hit 1 gets it, and the rest hear a "sorry, too late, somebody else got it"-type message (no idea what it actually says).


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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro [stotaro at totarotechnologies.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 1:24 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Anyone Know How to Have Asterisk Work Like        GranCentral and Require a Touch-Tone to Connect?

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

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