[asterisk-users] anoyingly answers already in use pstn line

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:04:32PM -0400, Gleim, Jason wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> > bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jack Bates
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 4:48 PM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] anoyingly answers already in use pstn line
> > 
> > I am using Asterisk and an X101P card as a glorified answering
> machine.
> > We have a residential PSTN line with about six phones connected to it.
> > Like an answering machine, I want Asterisk answer the line *only* when
> > an incoming call is not answered after four rings.
> > 
> > This mostly works. My extensions.conf is at the end of this message.
> > 
> > The problem is that Asterisk will sometimes answer the line when
> > someone
> > is already talking on one of the six phones connected to it. Sometimes
> > Asterisk will answer the line and start playing the greeting in the
> > middle of a conversation! This is especially a problem when I am
> > talking
> > on the phone to an automated system, because although I hang up the
> > phone I am talking on, neither the automated system nor Asterisk will
> > hang up.
> > 
> > I have not yet discovered a pattern to when Asterisk answers the line.
> > It always answers after four rings, but it sometimes answers when
> > someone is already talking on one of the phones connected to the line.
> > 
> > In a perfect world, Asterisk would be the only thing connected to the
> > line, and all our phones would be Asterisk extensions. Unfortunately
> we
> > do not currently have the required VoIP phones or FXS interface...
> > 
> > Is there any way to make Asterisk less flaky, and answer the line
> > *only*
> > when an incoming call is not answered after four rings?
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > [default]
> > 
> > exten => s,1,Wait(20)
> > exten => s,n,Answer
> > exten => s,n,Background(recordings/coop-greeting)
> > exten => s,n(instruct),Background(recordings/leave-message)
> > exten => s,n,Background(recordings/enter-extension)
> > exten => s,n,Background(recordings/dial-by-name)
> > exten => s,n,Background(recordings/visit-website)
> > exten => s,n,WaitExten
> > 
> > ; General delivery mailbox
> > exten => #,1,Voicemail(6000)
> > exten => #,n,Goto(s,instruct)
> > 
> > ; Dial by name
> > exten => a,1,Directory(default)
> > 
> > ; Entering an invalid extension replays the instructions
> > exten => i,1,Playback(invalid)
> > exten => i,n,Goto(s,instruct)
> > 
> > ; Timeout goes to voicemail
> > exten => t,1,Goto(#,1)
> > 
> > exten => 6003,1,Macro(stdexten,6003,SIP/cstewart)
> > exten => 6004,1,Macro(stdexten,6004,SIP/mhockley)
> > exten => 6005,1,Macro(stdexten,6005,SIP/jbates)
> > [...]
> > 
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> Others may wish to chime in and confirm or deny this but the card is
> probably getting confused by you loading the line with the other phones.
> I know most of the analog cards I've worked with (which does not include
> the X101P) really get cranky if there is anything else hanging off that
> line. The only solution I've seen to the problem is to change things
> around so that the card is the only thing on the line.

The "cranky" card here is not the issue. It would be the same with any
other card.

> 
> In know you said you haven't switched to IP or FXS but is there a reason
> why? 

That would require rewiring.

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