[Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding

[Philipp von Klitzing]

Hi!

> I've just installed asterisk a few days ago and figured most of it
> out, but I can't seem to forward calls. In the setup before I used
> asterisk, when people called my (ISDN) number and I didn't answer the
> phone in 4 rings, the call would be transferred to my cellphone. I
> ofcourse made that setting by once dialing, from the ISDN line,
> *610*XXXXXXXXX#, XXXX being my cellphone number. 

> The advantages of those transfers is that 
> 1) on my cellphone I see the original called ID
> 2) after the transfer the ISDN line is not busy anymore.
> 
> I tried to achieve the same in *, but so far no luck.

Check your hardware and find out if you can use chan_capi instead of i4l. 
Look at the URL below and pay special attention to "capiCD" (call 
deflection):
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20CAPI%20readme

Cheers, Philipp