[Asterisk-Users] Dynamic Zap/{channel} allocation for out going possible?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:39 +0200, Etienne Pretorius wrote:
> Never Mind..... oops.
> 
> I just needed to play around with some syntax.
> 
> Zap/1,2,3,4/$EXTEN
> 
> Ps: Is there a better santax because 1-4 doesn't work.

Look at groups in the /etc/asterisk/zaptel.conf

Once you define your groups, you can just 
exten => _0,1,Dial(Zap/g1/$EXTEN)
And asterisk will pick some available channel out of the channels
defined in group 1 to use for dialing out.

> > Hi All * users...
> >
> > Question:
> >    In extensions.conf - I am awaire that you can use macro's but what 
> > I am wondering about.. is that can you create a macro to do dynamic 
> > Zap channel allocation for a out going call?
> >    I don't want to reserve a channel/port in the TDM400P card for "Out 
> > break" calls, so i was just wandering if some1 could help me a bit 
> > over here.
> >
> > [outgoing]                                                      ;Dial 
> > "0" on the phone for external line
> >
> > exten => _0,1,Dial(Zap/4/$EXTEN)               ;<======= statically 
> > allocated to Zap/4 needs to be dynamic
> > exten => _0,2,Goto(102)
> > exten => _0,102,Congestion
> > exten => _0,103,Hangup
> >
> > I'll apreciate any help in this regard.
> >
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>