thx for all of your suggestions... I'm learning more about asterisk every minute :)<br><br>Barton, I tried to replace 'WaitExten' with 'Background' as you suggested, and at first was disappointed that didn't change the behavior.
<br><br>Than I tried Roberts suggestion, using 'Read' instead of 'WaitExten' - and again was disappointed - no change, or at least it seem asterisk didn't get every digit fo the extension, just some of them (
f.e. I entered "1234", asterisk [at the console] complained that there is no voicebox "124" etc.).<br><br>however, I've continued to experiment again and again, and strangely it seemed to work _some_ times, even when passing 4digit-extensions. now I think I got the solution: it seems I have to press the extension digits a little bit longer! let's say I hold each button at least
0.5sec, everything works great. if I do a quick dial, asterisk seems to "loose" digits. <br><br>any ideas why this might be?<br><br>looking forward to your opinions... I really start to like toying around with asterisk :)
<br><br>michael<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Davies</b> <<a href="mailto:davies147@gmail.com">davies147@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 4/25/07, Barton Fisher <<a href="mailto:bhfisher@icpage.com">bhfisher@icpage.com</a>> wrote:<br>A very simple workaround to achieve what you want might be to replace<br> WaitExten(5)<br>with<br> Background(silence/5)
<br><br>I use this all over the place to great success as it prevents the need<br>for any overly-clever processing of the result of WaitExten.<br></blockquote></div><br>