[Asterisk-Users] One Question:CLI dial cmd

[Greg Hill]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Marconi Rivello wrote:

> On 15 Sep 2004 06:26:29 -0000, Murali <slmurali at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi friends,
> >
> >   I tried to dial 111 from CLI without any hard/soft phones.
>
> Well, the ellegant solution is to disable OSS/ALSA and use a softphone :)
> I suggest SJphone if you want a SIP client, or iaxcomm if you rather use IAX2.

The question is a good one, though. You can answer a call on the console,
why not dial from it?

I've used something like dial(sip/number at provider) to place calls from the
console in the past (I think that's how I did it!).

One thing I've never figured out, though, is how to send DTMF digits from
the console. For example, suppose I encounter an IVR, or maybe I'm testing
my own IVR by calling it from the console -- how do I send the digits?

Greg