[Asterisk-Users] BIG problem with multiple rings before pickup

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 02:42 pm, Jim Archer wrote:
> Thanks, but this is not a great solution.  It still leaves the line
> off hook for the length of the timeout and limits real calls to the
> timeout as well.

Not so.  Once the user presses any DTMF, the first thing you can
do is to set AbsoluteTimeout(0), which turns off the AbsoluteTimeout.
If you originally set it to 60, the line will remain off hook for a
maximum of 60 seconds before it will hang up.

-Tilghman