[asterisk-users] * as VM for legacy PBX?

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jared Smith<jsmith at digium.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 13:05 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>> Sounds like good stuff, but my most substantial concerns involved things
>> like MWI: is asterisk able to "push" that back to the PBX?
>
> Does your existing PBX use SMDI to interface with your current voicemail
> system?  If so, recent versions of Asterisk (1.6.0 and later, if I
> recall) support SMDI.
>
>
> --
> Jared Smith
> Training Manager
> Digium, Inc.
>
>

Here is a pretty classic integration that works with most systems that
just send DTMF.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Avaya+or+Lucent+Magix+Voicemail+Integration

Is a pretty good how to all the way to MWI.  It didn't work exactly
like the wiki said though.  To catch the DTMF being sent by the PBX I
used

Answer()
WaitExten(1)
NoOp(${WaitExten})

With the PBX plugged into asterisk I would place a call and on the
console, I could see what digits were being sent with the NoOp line
and adjust accordingly.

Then this piece of genius just needed a slight bit of tweaking
http://mikecathey.com/code/vmnotify/?M=A

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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