[asterisk-users] What if some phone picks up

[Phil Reynolds]

Quoting "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com>:

(used no part of his message)

> Julien Claassen wrote:
>
>> Godd evening!
>>    What happens if someone calls and asterisk doesn't "Answer()" itself, but
>> another analog phone does? Can I somehow catch this situation in my 
>> dialplan.

If you want asterisk to wait and see before answering, use the WaitForRing dialplan app. I used to use this when I had a fax machine that answered a specific dring and I needed to wait to see if that happened. If the line is answered within the timeout, the call is considered dropped before answering.

(You might ask why I didn't use dring detection - it doesn't work if you are also working with caller ID in the UK.)

As for detecting it after answer, I am not sure it's possible. Nor, sadly, is it possible to determine that the line is in use, as far as I know, if the use does not go through asterisk.

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