[Asterisk-Users] answer on # key?

[Richard Lyman]

Marty Mastera wrote:
> Matthew:
>  
> That feature is referred to as Answer Supervision, and the dial flag is "c"...beware however, it only works when the outbound call is made via a Zap channel.
>  
> I have the exact same need as you, however the call is made using either sip or iax, and currently answer supervision isn't an option.  I posted to a bug report asking about making this feature channel type independant, but I don't think it's going anywhere yet.
>  
> Marty
> 
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> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com on behalf of Matthew Simpson
> Sent: Thu 10/21/2004 11:47 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] answer on # key?
> 
> 
> 
> I thought I read somewhere on the Wiki that one could give Dial() an
> argument that would first dial the extension, but not bridge the connection
> until the called party hit the "#" key.  It must have been during one of
> those late night coding sessions because now I can't find anything to do
> with that other than options to allow hangup of the call by hitting "*".
> 
> Does such an option exist?
> 
> If not, is anyone using a Macro to do that?
> 
> I have a system that attempts to do a Dial out to a cell phone number with a
> 15 second timer as a find me type of application.  If the cell phone is off
> or out of range, the 15 seconds of ring time isn't reached and the caller
> gets connected to the cell phone's voicemail instead of the Asterisk
> voicemail like I want.  Having the # to connect option would fix this
> problem.

there is an 'ackcall' feature in chan_agent that TC added