[Asterisk-Users] Integrating cell phone into Asterisk Extension..

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 21:37, John Morris wrote:
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> I understand why the X100P can't detect pickup.  Too
> bad!
> 
> Is there any way to implement either of the following
> solutions:
> 
> 1)  Ring office extensions (${DESK}, TDM400Ps)
> simultaneously with ${CELL}.  If ${DESK} picks up
> first, we hang up on ${CELL} and everything's great. 
> If ${CELL} picks up and a '#' is heard, we hang up
> ${DESK}, and everything's great.  Otherwise, after 20
> seconds, we go to voicmail.
> 
> If that's too far out, how about this:
> 
> 2)  Ring office extensions ${DESK}; if no pickup after
> 20 seconds, hangup and ring ${CELL}.  If ${CELL} is
> picked up and a '#' is heard, everything's good.  If
> no '#' is heard after 20 seconds, hang up ${CELL} and
> go to voicemail.
> 
> Thanks again for the help!  Asterisk is changing my
> phones from being a headache to being a pleasure.  :)

Granted it takes some pre-thought, but why not just use the *72/*73
codes to forward when you are out of the office? 


> > If you have a tdm400P I assume you probably have an
> > X100P also. If you
> > are dialing outside with an analog circuit you don't
> > have definitive
> > knowledge of them the other side is answered. With
> > out this knowledge,
> > your cell phone "answered" the line first and the
> > desk phones loose the
> > opportunity to answer. 
> >
> > [...]
> > 
> > Might want to change this last line from t to s,2.
> > If I remember
> > correctly, your dial will time out and then go into
> > limbo till
> > DigitTimeout, then go to t.
> > 
> > > [john-cell]
> > > ; call my cell if I don't answer
> > > exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/g1/${CELL},20)
> > > ; go to voicemail if I don't pick up the cell
> > > exten => t,1,Voicemail,1002
> > > exten => t,2,hangup
> > > 
> > > This doesn't do what I need, either.  If I don't
> > pick
> > > up ${DESK}, then ${CELL} is dialed.  Problem is,
> > even
> > > if I answer ${CELL}, asterisk doesn't register
> > that I
> > > picked up, and after 20 seconds it hangs up on
> > ${CELL}
> > > and goes to voicemail.  I'm using two X100Ps for
> > FXO
> > > devices, by the way.
> > 
> > Do you have an AbsoluteTimeout set somewhere? BTW,
> > your timeout
> > shouldn't work for the cell phone since the X100P
> > won't know when you
> > "answered" the line or not, it will just assume
> > answered.
> 
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Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>