[Asterisk-Users] Wildcards and variable number of digits

Sun Sep 5 13:50:31 MST 2004

Humm...I tried it and it didn't work,  still rang after two digits, but I
may be making newbie errors :)

Should this work?  Is NoOp a valid instruction, or do I need to create
something else?

[internal] 
include => freeworld
Include => localexts
exten => _712XXX,1,NoOp,Blah

[freeworld] 
exten => _7.,1,Dial(...dial stuff) ?

I posted my config to the list earlier and don't want to annoy people with
it again...

On 2004-09-05 15:55, "Brian West" <brian at bkw.org> wrote:

> Actually it does the proper usage of the "." char in your dial plan should
> solve this problem.  It's not the channel driver that's doing this its
> asterisk.  You need to sandbox a wildcard into its own context then include
> it.  Otherwise it wins NO MATER WHAT.  This way an extension defined within
> the current context wins over the included wildcard context.
> S= 
> bkw 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric Jacksch
>> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 2:50 PM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Wildcards and variable number of digits
>> 
>> Not sure I understand..does that help my problem of not being able to
>> enter 
>> sufficient digits, or is that a consideration once I get a driver that
>> allows me to # terminate the dialing string?
>> 
>> 
>> On 2004-09-05 15:00, "Brian West" <brian at bkw.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Just to clarify the usage of the . wildcard in your dialplan.
>>> 
>>> Here is the proper usage of this feature which seems to not be
>> documented 
>>> ANYWHERE very well.
>>> 
>>> [default] 
>>> include => other
>>> exten => _712XXX,1,NoOp,Blah
>>> 
>>> [other] 
>>> exten => _7.,1,NoOp,somethingelse
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The extensions in the current context win over an include.. only if
>>> something doesn't specifically match in [default] but does as a wildcard
>> as 
>>> an include then it will work.  Remember includes are your friend.
>>> 
>>> bkw 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>>>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Karl Brose
>>>> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 1:50 PM
>>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Wildcards and variable number of digits
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The problem you are having is due to the way chan_phone was designed.
>>>> The distributed driver does not buffer the entire phone number dialed
>>>> and then send it on to the PBX,
>>>> like a SIP phone would, but instead scans the dial plan after every
>>>> digit is entered to look for a match.
>>>> The solution is to only use fixed length extension patterns, but at the
>>>> same time requires different dial plans
>>>> for the Phone/phoneX devices.  I you're only dialing PSTN numbers it's
>>>> not so bad, but many VOIP providers
>>>> have all kinds of numbering plans. On the other hand, fixed patterns
>> are 
>>>> nice since you don't have to
>>>> press any "call" or "dial" buttons to make the call.
>>>> 
>>>> I have a new chan_phone driver which solves this issue by buffering the
>>>> dial string until the user presses
>>>> the pound (#) key to send the phone number to the pbx.  The features
>> can 
>>>> be toggled on/off any time by dialing
>>>> *1#  or  *0#  or in the config file with a mode "buffered"  which is
>>>> otherwise the same as "dialtone"
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Eric Jacksch wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Greetings, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm having a miserable time getting Asterisk working with FWD.  All
>> the 
>>>>> samples show something like...
>>>>> 
>>>>> exten => _7., ....
>>>>> 
>>>>> How do I get Asterisk to wait until the user is finished dialing
>> instead 
>>>> of 
>>>>> trying as soon as it gets the second digit?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can use _7XXX, and dial the FWD 3-digit test numbers fine, but I'd
>> like 
>>>> to 
>>>>> be able to dial others...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Same problem for outside analog line...how do I convince Asterisk to
>> send 
>>>>> anything that starts with a "9" to it?
>>>>> 
>>>>> If it makes a difference, I'm playing with some QuickNet cards to
>> learn 
>>>> the 
>>>>> system...then I'll likely buy some other cards with higher capacity.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, 
>>>>> Eric 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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