<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Trevor Hammonds <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trevor@concipient.net">trevor@concipient.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Bill Lovett wrote:<br>
><br>
>Can Asterisk be configured to hang up if another phone picks up?<br>
><br>
>I'm a bit lost as far as terminology goes, but here's my setup. At<br>
>home, I have asterisk answering calls from the pstn and sending them<br>
>through to a sip extension or voicemail. All that is working fine.<br>
><br>
>The box running Asterisk isn't on 24/7 so I have a secondary phone<br>
>connected to the line as well. If Asterisk is not running, I can<br>
>answer an incoming call from that phone. If asterisk is running, I can<br>
>answer the call from a sip extension.<br>
><br>
>Can I have it both ways? Can Asterisk back off if the secondary phone<br>
>answers the call? Currently, if a call comes in and I answer it from<br>
>the secondary phone Asterisk will continue to ring the sip extension<br>
>and eventually drop into voicemail.<br>
<br>
</div>Asterisk is a PBX, not an answering machine, so I would advise against this.<br>
It would be best to have Asterisk handle the phone line exclusively, 24/7.<br>
However, with that said, it is possible to accomplish what you are asking.<br>
<br>
Placing a telephone privacy/exclusion adapter on the line cord into Asterisk<br>
will cut off the phone line whenever a parallel telephone on the same line<br>
is picked up. This means that the instant you pick up any other phone on<br>
the line, it would cut off the line to Asterisk.<br>
<br>
Radio Shack used to sell a couple varieties of these. One was a two-way<br>
adapter with one side for "phone" and the other "answering machine". You do<br>
not need to plug anything into the "phone" side for the device to work. The<br>
second device was just an inline exclusion device. I was unable to find<br>
these at Radio Shack's website. However, I found something similar at the<br>
following URLs:<br>
<br>
(See SER2A, SER2D, and SER3P at Sandman.com)<br>
<a href="http://www.sandman.com/lineshar.html" target="_blank">http://www.sandman.com/lineshar.html</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.trianglecables.com/telanmacorph.html" target="_blank">http://www.trianglecables.com/telanmacorph.html</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/COM9928" target="_blank">http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/COM9928</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/COM0006" target="_blank">http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/COM0006</a><br>
<br>
Good luck!<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<font color="#888888">Trevor Hammonds<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks, filed away in memory bank. I will probably order one very soon.<br><br>Not for Asterisk of course but for annoying answering machines that pick up if you don't grab the phone in time and record your whole darn conversation. <br>
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