[Asterisk-Users] Ringdown Circuit Configuration

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 18 March 2003 09:04, Don Pobanz wrote:
> We have need of a ringdown circuit in an elevator. If someone
> picks up the phone, it should dial another extension without
> any keys being pressed. (There are no keys on the phone)
>
> If it was an incoming call to asterisk, the following lines in
> extensions.conf would do the trick.
> exten => s,1,Answer
> exten => s,2,Dial,Zap/10
>
> However, the 's' state is not valid for just picking up a
> phone (extension). With nothing being dialed there are no
> extension matches to make. It is like the dial tone needs to
> time out in a very short time and instead of getting the busy
> tone, asterisk should dial an extension.
>
> Anyway, I have not figured it out. Suggestions?

Put that channel into a different context in zapata.conf, where
immediate=yes (i.e. don't provide dialtone), then set up the
context with extension s, as you specified above.

-Tilghman