[Fwd: Re: [Asterisk-Users] call pickup fails.]

[Luis Vazquez]

More than one hundred messages related to *8 or call pickup problem in 
last 6 months!!

Please someone in the development team could clarify this and make 
himself responsible for the response.
By now It seems a bad joke.
We have spent thousand dollars with hardware, sip phones, working men 
hours, and with digium stuff (E1, fxo, fxs cards etc)
and we have had the *8 problem (sip callee ringing forever) al least for 
6 months.
This made us to lose at least a couple of clients ("a IP PBX where you 
are not able to pickup correctly other SIP extensions, are you fooling, 
come back next year" ) an we keep reading again and again people saying 
it is not working, and a couple of enlighted people saying their have 
the luck to have it working!!

Please this is not serious! 
This should be fixed for every-one-of-us (if you are one of the lucky 
boys send a sip.conf to THIS LIST or post it in wiki-asterisk with a 
couple of client definitions where people from the earth will be able to 
pick up it) or be recogniced as not working (most of the time if you 
prefer) and ask for someone to solve it (as an open bug report for example).
Is not so complicated stuff to put a callgroup=1 an a pickupgroup=1 in a 
file to suspect we are all fools not getting it to work because of some 
sort of mental illness, or I'm wrong. If someone feels himself 
intelligent by this, he have a problem!!

The money we have invested in Digium and Asterisk stuff in the last six 
months is the same money half of the people in my country
has to live eighteen years!!  More or less 450 times our basic salary 
here, so:
Please, there is people betting on open source software and loosing 
money out there because of these "funny details", and that's the same 
people making Digium earn their bucks.
Sorry for my "bad" (o I should say mad?) english :(
Thanks for your attention guys
Luis

Pd: despite *8 pickup, asterisk is great (most of the time) :)



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Asterisk-Users] call pickup fails.
Date: 	Thu, 27 May 2004 07:38:44 -0600
From: 	Rich Adamson <radamson at routers.com>
Reply-To: 	asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
To: 	asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
References: 	<40B59209.6040202 at telnor.net>



>     I saw a few weeks ago a discussion about cal pickup, *8, not working 
> but did not find a message about it being resolved, I look for a bug on 
> the bug list but did not find anything about it not working, nor a bug open.
>     I installed asterisk 0.9.0, have one sip fxo gateway and only sip 
> phones, all of them have callgroup=1 and pickupgroup=1 but I can not get 
> a call that is ringing in another phone, there is a message on the * 
> console that says something like "Nothing to pickup" every time I try it.
>     Any hints ?

It's been working fine for me on cvs Head for months. We have to use
*8# from a sip phone however.



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