[Asterisk-Users] Problem with * not detecting hangup on FXO and VM going into an infinite loop

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:16, Chris Hirsch wrote:
> >If you where on google and saw the same questions, you should have been
> >able to follow the rabbit further down the hole by playing with the
> >links at the bottom of the pages google provided. You would have seen
> >use rant regularly that you need to work just a tad harder to find the
> >answer. It is there. It is consistently the same problem. 
> >
> >You lack disconnect supervision. The only way to know the line has been
> >hungup is to use progress detection and possibly tweak for your
> >location.
> >  
> >
> Thank you humoring a newbie...I realize that we're a dime a dozen on 
> this list and there a trillion emails that go through here a day 
> basically asking the same thing...You have answered what I couldn't seem 
> to find and that * can't know about remote hangups if its a not digital 
> line. FXO doesn't cut it in this case...However there was an email Jorge 
> J. Ramirez S. that stated that if I do a Hangup() after all Voicemail 
> access that this should also solve my problem..so I thank you both!! 
> I'll be posting this back to the wiki if it solves my problem and 
> actually post back to jaiger on #asterisk who was also having the same 
> problem.

Be aware that if you rely on the hangup to do the actual hangup, you are
likely to experience problems where the call goes into voicemail and the
user hangsup and voicemail never exits. It is also probably a good idea
to define and use the timeout extension t for your analog lines as a
person may call in and get in an IVR menu and hangup and again tie up
your lines.

> I'm not usually a leech..just people don't ask questions about stuff I 
> know :-)

You should qualify this with "yet". I'm sure either you will learn and
provide details, or someone eventually will ask a question that you
know. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>