[Asterisk-Users] DTMF issue --help

[Andrew Yager]

On 17/07/2004, at 3:24 AM, Eric Wieling wrote:

> Tony Nichols wrote:
>  > After calling a bank, or cc processing center; you have to enter 
> your
>> social security number, or the cc number - followed by the # key. The 
>> lovely * voice responds "transfering" I'm sorry that was an invalade
>> selection. Sometimes the IVR on the other end still gets the digits 
>> and
>> proceeds; other times it breaks the IVR on the bank side and hangs up.
>> How do I tell * to stop listning for the DTMF?
>
>> ; dial a long distance outbound number exten => 
>> _9XXXXXXXXXXX,1,Dial(${TRUNK}/${EXTEN:1},,Tt)
>> exten => _9XXXXXXXXXXX,2,Congestion
>
> Stop telling it to listen to DTMF.  It's pretty clear that you just 
> copied someone's Dial line from somewhere without learning what T and 
> t do.  "show application dial" on the Asterisk CLI to learn what T and 
> t do.

If you really need the # transfer, there is a patch on the bug tracker 
that implements the use of two keys for transfers (eg ##). I haven't 
yet had a chance to test this feature, although I will.

Yours,
Andrew