You can also use wait<br>exten => X,1,Wait(3) ( for 3 secs ) <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Archer</b> <<a href="mailto:jim@archer.net">jim@archer.net</a>> wrote:
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--On Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:53 PM -0500 John Novack<br><<a href="mailto:jnovack@stromberg-carlson.org">jnovack@stromberg-carlson.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br>> Dovid B wrote:<br>>> <snip><br>>> How hard would it be to have asterisk detect a dial tone ?
<br>> I really can't say. I am not a "C" programmer, so I wouldn't even know<br>> where to start.<br>> Given that cheap dial up modems have, for the past ??20?? years, have<br>> been able to do just that, I would think it should have been an early
<br>> consideration<br>> For those 1% of users, the last time I tried, the insertion of a "w" had<br>> no effect for pulse dialing either.<br><br><br>Well thanks to everyone who responded, and thanks to multiple w's I am back
<br>in operation. I went off hook a bunch of times and the worst case seemed<br>to be 3 seconds to get a dial tone (which is pretty bad). It's hard to<br>google one letter, but I eventually found that each w is .5 seconds, so 7
<br>w's were inserted to be safe. I also called Cox and griped but I doubt<br>that will do me any good.<br><br>I am a "C" programmer, but I don't know anything about the inards of<br>Asterisk. However, I would expect that dial tone detection would be a
<br>function of the hardware, not the Asterisk software. The cheap modems do<br>this on board and export a simple command set. But I also don't know<br>anything about Digium's hardware either.<br><br>Thanks again! I really appreciate the help!
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