[Asterisk-Users] Dialling Hook Flash on Zaptel

[Grzegorz Nosek]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:33:24 -0600, David Gomillion wrote
> Steven Critchfield wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:53, David Gomillion wrote:
> >> Steven Critchfield wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 06:59, Christopher Lee wrote:

[flames, non-flames etc. snipped]

> what about something like this?  NOTE: THIS IS NOT WORKING 
> CODE.  It is an idea, a concept.  If you want to try it to 
> make it work, then you will have to build on this.
> 
> exten => _*XX,1,Dial(Zap/1/1)  (dials a 1 on the outgoing 
> zap interface, probably needs a short timeout)
> exten => _*XX,2,Flash()
> exten => _*XX,3,Dial(Zap/1/${EXTEN})
> 
> The flash is probably on the wrong side, as I look at it 
> more closely.  This will probably send the flash to your 
> VoIP client.  But maybe you could look into scripting with AGI.
> 

I'm not sure it'll work as Dial doesn't return to the dialplan. It
seems like the only clean method to do this would be to extend
chan_zap to include flash as an extra digit (a'la W). Would a
copy-paste from app_flash do? I have no zaptel devices to begin with
so I can't really check.

Or maybe some voodoo with transfers, local channels etc. would work?

> 
> And with that, I bid the fair Asterisk-User's list a 
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> the countless other leaches who give nothing back to the 
> community.  It was good to get help, and I tried to help 
> others out, but I have a lot better things to do than spend 
> my time helping others only to get flamed every time I turn around.
> 
> You need to remember that we're all volunteers.  I will only 
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> 
> Go ahead and rip me a new one.  Have fun.  Rant, rave, call 
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> 

Hey, why take things personally? I think Steven is known for his
inflammatory posts. Sure it isn't nice to be flamed openly and IMHO
Steven is doing a fine job scaring people away from the list
(sometimes just *too* fine), but we (=the newbies, like me) all end up
learning something. In this way I find his posts doing more good than
harm. From a third-person perspective (not being flamed by him - yet?)
I'd describe his posts somewhere between informative and funny with an
occasional flamebait (yes, I do hang out on /.)

That being said, I'm mostly a lurker myself.

Regards and don't feel too offended :)
 Greg