[Asterisk-Users] Call Interception

[Rich Adamson]

> > Yes.
> 
> > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Channels+and+Groups
> > "A channel that belongs to a pickupgroup, can pickup
> all incoming
> > calls on the same callgroup by hitting *8"
> 
> Thanks answering me, that works with the *8 (and *02
> th e pattern in my company works too) but there is a
> problem : how do you select the phone ringing to
> pickup ? For example phones 23 and 24 are ringing ;
> I'm 25 (same pickupgroup as 23 and 24 callgroup), How
> do I decide either to take the 23 or 24 ? Seems the *8
> takes the first arrived call. Any idea ? 

What you are asking for (in US terms) is directed call pickup.

Asterisk does not have a directed call pickup implemented
within it. Not sure how one would try to implement that, but
a guess would be that it would require an external script
or app of some sort.