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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Danny Dias<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 21, 2010
7:42 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Asterisk
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [asterisk-users] dialing
from asterisk console?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hello friends,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I'm trying to make a simple call from asterisk CLI, but is quite
confuse<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>i followed the information here: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+CLI+dial">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+CLI+dial</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>and changed my extensions.conf like this:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>alsa.conf<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>[general] </span></font></span><font
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>autoanswer=no </span></font></span><font
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>context=consolecontext </span></font></span><font
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</span></font><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>extension=100 </span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>By the way, how do i know if
my console is using the channel driver ALSA or <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">OSS</st1:place></st1:City>?</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>then, in extensions.conf:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>[consolecontext] </span></font></span><font
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</span></font><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>exten => 100,1,Dial($DEMO)</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>And then, from the Asterisk
CLI: many attempts:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>CLI> dial<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>No such extension 's' in context 'default'<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>CLI> dial 100<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>No such extension '100' in context 'default'<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=monospace><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:monospace'>What am i doing wrong?</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Dial from CLI works differently from
regular Dial in the Dialplan. From what I can see, you are limited
(1.4.30) to dialing extensions defined in the [default] context . Do “dialplan
show default” and you’ll see what you can dial.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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