[Asterisk-Users] * Busy-Redial ??

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi, 

> -----Original Message-----
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to create a 
> busy-redial feature in
> the * dialplan?  For example, you try to call 12125551212 but 
> the number is
> busy, so you hang up and dial *XX12125551212 and hangup 
> again, then * would
> continue to retry calling the number until either it rings or 
> a timeout is
> reached, if it rings * then calls back the exten that made 
> the *XX call and
> bridges the two channels (maybe even with a distinctive 
> ring). If anyone has
> any suggestions on how to accomplish this please let me know.

I have not implemented this, but it should be doable by creating a file in
the spool directory. You really just need to tinker around with contexts and
actions to do 'the right thing' (tm).

An AGI script to generate the spool file would probably do the trick.

Florian