[asterisk-users] Orginate not working well with PSTN lines

[Gilles]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:55:14 +0300, Ashik Ali
<beaasteriskguru at gmail.com> wrote:
>The problem here is that as soon as asterisk dialing on fxo lines it
>sets channel status as "answered"  although the chennel is getting
>ring back tone from
>other party.
>
>Anyone can suggest me to solve this issue ?

The only solution I know is to have Asterisk play a message in a loop
for eg. 1mn, prompting the callee to hit a key to let the server know
that the call was 1) answered 2) by a human being.