[Asterisk-Users] Dial to Answer -- Can this be done?

[Shaun Ewing]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Jim Rosenberg

> When I hear one of these extensions ringing, I want to be 
> able to dial an 
> extension on the Asterisk phone system that will allow the 
> Asterisk FXO 
> port to answer, and from there on Asterisk takes the call.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to do this?

By this I assume you mean that Asterisk won't acknowledge the call, nor will
it ring any internal extensions (eg: exten => s,1,whatever).

Let's assume we have extension '8701' to pick up the line, you could try:
exten => 8701,1,Dial,Zap/1/

That works fine here using it to give direct access to the line's dialtone
on an X100P. I don't see why it wouldn't work if the line was already
ringing (but I haven't tried it).

> -Thanks, Jim

-Shaun