[Asterisk-Users] Dialing out through a Hardware PBX

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 03:53, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 surajee at infotechs.lk wrote:
> 
> > our Asterisk pbx is sitting behind a normal analog hardware pbx, we have
> > to dial 9
> > to take an outside call through the hardware pbx, our fxo interface is
> > also connected
> > to one of the extensions of it. we can make calls to internal hardware
> > pbx extensions
> > by dialing through the fxo interface using Dial function, for ex.
> > Dial(Zap/g3/599|20|t)
> >  
> > but we also want make calls to outside by first dialing 9, and then
> > dialing the number.
> > is there any possiblity that asterisk can make calls like that, ie, first
> > dialing 9, and then
> > wait for the dial tone and then dialing the number?
> > how do i pause between 9 and the telephone number, will comma ( , ) do
> > the job?
> > for ex. will Dial(Zap/g3/9,0777701338|20|t) will work? or else pls let me
> > know a way to
> > do that.
> 
> I'd suggest something like
> 
> exten = _9.,1,Dial(Zap/g3/9|20|t)  ;dial "9" for outbound line
> exten = _9.,2,Wait(1)              ;wait 1s for dialtone, PBX may take longer
> exten = _9.,3,SendDTMF(${EXTEN:1}) ;send remaining digits as DTMF

This won't work due to the fact that the dial won't return till you
hangup. Remember dial will bridge the channels.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>