[Asterisk-Users] How to delay dialing

[Walker Haddock]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:58:15AM -0600, Eric Wieling wrote:
> Are you sure this works for VoiceTronix Driver?  It's not implemented in
> app_dial, but in chan_zap.
> 
I've only used it with a zap device.  Sorry I didn't think this through.


> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:15, Walker Haddock wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:10:42PM -0800, David Liu wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to delay sending out DTMF from Voicetronix OpenLine4 to the CO
> > > line.  The reason being is that Voicetronix sends out the DTMF too fast even
> > > before the line is fully established with the carrier.  Usually when dialing
> > > an 8 digit number, only 7 digits are actually successfully heard by the
> > > carrier.
> > > 
> > > Currently, my dial plan is:
> > > exten => _9.,1,Dial(vpb/1-1/${EXTEN:1})
> > > 
> > > Daniel said to insert a , before the numbers.  I am not too sure where to
> > > insert it.  I tried
> > > exten => _9.,1,Dial(vpb/1-1/,${EXTEN:1}) and that seems to be cause a
> > > parsing error.
> > > 
> > > Anybody has any ideas for a hack?
> > > 
> > > David
> > The token to insert a pause is `W` (must be upper case).  Try this:
> > 
> >  exten => _9.,1,Dial(vpb/1-1/W${EXTEN:1})
> > 
> > each `W` will cause a 0.5 second pause.