[Asterisk-Users] Getting Asterisk to automatically dialout

[Andrew Elchuk]

Hi,
I am not making the *.call files in the outgoing directory, they are 
being created elsewhere then moved to /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing with 
the "mv" command.  I put channel 1 into a group 1, and created a *.call 
file that looks like this:
Channel: Zap/g1/2609944
Callerid: Nagios
MaxRetries: 1
RetryTime: 60
WaitTime: 30
Context: alert
Extension: 4
Priority: 1
This should connect with extension 4 of the "alert" context in 
extensions.conf which looks like this:
[alert]

exten => 4,1,Wait(1)
exten => 4,2,Answer
exten => 4,3,Wait(2)
exten => 4,4,Playback(tt-somethingwrong)
exten => 4,5,Playback(vm-goodbye)
exten => 4,6,Hangup
I've incorporated a the hints people have given me into trying to solve 
this but it still won't dialout on the analog phoneline plugged into the 
back of the X100P card.  If you guys have any more ideas of how to solve 
this that would be very much appreciated.  Thanks.

Steven Critchfield wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:10, Andrew Elchuk wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>I'm trying to get asterisk to auto-dail out.  I created a *.call file 
>>with the the top of it being "Channel: Zap/1/2609944", which should have 
>>connected to Zap channel 1 and dial out to 2609944, but It did not do 
>>so, asterisk would say a call was completed to Zap/1/2609944 but I never 
>>heard that phone ring.  So I tried just putting "Channel: Zap/1" at the 
>>top of the call file so it would connect to Zap channel 1, then in the 
>>*.call file connect it to an "outgoing" context in extensions.conf which 
>>looked like:
>>    
>>
>
>First, don't call out on specific channels. Put the channels in a group
>and then use the group. Even if right now you only have one channel, it
>will help you out later.
>
>The first type of call file would be like this below
>##############
>Channel: Zap/g1/2609944
>MaxRetries: 2
>RetryTime: 60
>WaitTime: 30
>
># now to a context/extension/priority that does what you want.
>Context: AutoAnswer
>Extension: 4
>Priority: 1
>###################
>
>  
>
>>[outgoing]
>>
>>exten => s,1,Wait(1)
>>exten => s,2,Dial(Zap/1/2609944)
>>    
>>
>
>This would never work since the dial would connect out and not return
>till the call hungup.
>
>
>  
>
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