[Asterisk-Users] '.' pattern and non-SIP phones

[Mark Spencer]

*8 is call pickup.  Can you choose a different extension?  If not, I'm
going to have to make call pickup not be checked if you don't have a
pickup/ring group.

Mark

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, James Golovich wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
>
> > Using FWD and accessing it via this extension:
> >
> > exten => _*8.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2}@fwd.pulver.com)
> >
> > This works *perfectly* with SIP phones.  However with a regular phone
> > plugged into an FXS card (PhoneJack PCI in my case) the '.' traps the first
> > number dialled after *8 and tries calling that.  I've tried setting a digit
> > timeout but it doesn't seem to help.
> >
> > Changing that to
> >
> > exten => _*8XXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2}@fwd.pulver.com)
> >
> > works, but is hardly optimal, since I plan on changing my dialplan to allow
> > varied-length numbers for other things.
> >
>
> I can't explain it without looking at the code, and I'm short on time so I
> won't go there but the way that works best for me is:
> exten => _*8X.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2}@fwd.pulver.com)
>
> James
>
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