[asterisk-users] Ringing for incoming call

[Bob Smither]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 08:26 -0500, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> I have a strange suggestion -- have one extension answer the call and
> dial the extension you want -- then it should ring before dialing the
> second one.

Actually, that is pretty close to what I do on a *1.6 box and it works.
Here's what I tried on my *1.4 box (in extensions.conf):

[inbound]
exten => 8772709688,1,Dial(Local/s at cci,15)
exten => 8772709688,n,Hangup()

[cci]
exten => s,1,Set(CallerContext=${CONTEXT}) ; capture context
; document time of call to console
exten => s,n,NoOp(Time is: ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)})
; document caller id to console
exten => s,n,NoOp(CallerID is ${CALLERID(all)})
exten => s,n,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=3)      ; Set Digit Timeout
exten => s,n,Set(TIMEOUT(response)=10)  ; Set Response Timeout
; create unique call id for this call
exten => s,n,Set(GLOBAL(cid)=${EPOCH})
;
;exten => s,n,Playtones(ring)
exten => s,n,Wait(10)
;exten => s,n,StopPlaytones()
exten => s,n,Answer()
exten => s,n(start),Wait(0.5)
exten => s,n,BackGround(cci/prompt00)
exten => s,n,WaitExten  ; Wait for an extension to be dialed.

I tried both with and without the Playtones(ring) / StopPlaytones()
lines.

Here is what I get from the CLI:

Connected to Asterisk 1.4.21.1 currently running on k6-2 (pid = 8998)
Verbosity was 0 and is now 3
    -- Executing [8772709688 at inbound:1] Dial("SIP/smither-173b4940",
"Local/s at cci|15") in new stack
    -- Called s at cci
    -- Executing [s at cci:1] Set("Local/s at cci-7c61,2",
"CallerContext=cci") in new stack
    -- Executing [s at cci:2] NoOp("Local/s at cci-7c61,2", "Time is:
2009-12-19 09:43:10") in new stack
    -- Executing [s at cci:3] NoOp("Local/s at cci-7c61,2", "CallerID is
"*****" <*****>") in new stack
    -- Executing [s at cci:4] Set("Local/s at cci-7c61,2", "TIMEOUT(digit)=3")
in new stack
    -- Digit timeout set to 3
    -- Executing [s at cci:5] Set("Local/s at cci-7c61,2",
"TIMEOUT(response)=10") in new stack
    -- Response timeout set to 10
    -- Executing [s at cci:6] Set("Local/s at cci-7c61,2",
"GLOBAL(cid)=1261237390") in new stack
  == Setting global variable 'cid' to '1261237390'
    -- Executing [s at cci:7] PlayTones("Local/s at cci-7c61,2", "ring") in
new stack
    -- Executing [s at cci:8] Wait("Local/s at cci-7c61,2", "10") in new stack
    -- Executing [s at cci:9] StopPlayTones("Local/s at cci-7c61,2", "") in
new stack
    -- Executing [s at cci:10] Answer("Local/s at cci-7c61,2", "") in new
stack
    -- Executing [s at cci:11] Wait("Local/s at cci-7c61,2", "0.5") in new
stack
    -- Local/s at cci-7c61,1 answered SIP/smither-173b4940
    -- Executing [s at cci:12] BackGround("Local/s at cci-7c61,2",
"cci/prompt00") in 
new stack
    -- <Local/s at cci-7c61,2> Playing 'cci/prompt00' (language 'en')

This all looks as expected to me, but the caller hears nothing until the
BackGround statement is executed.  There still is no ringing back to the
caller.

Thanks!