[Asterisk-Users] Call Interception

[Josiah Bryan]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:20 am, Rich Adamson wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Actually I've just tested this. I'm using * 1.0.7 with bristuff.
> > There is an application PickupChan:
> >
> > *CLI> show application PickupChan
> > *CLI>
> >   -= Info about application 'PickupChan' =-
> >
> > [Synopsis]:
> > Channel independent call pickup.
> >
> > [Description]:
> >   PickupChan(Technology/resource[&Technology2/resource2...]):  Tries to
> > pickup the first ringing channel in the parameter list.
> >
> > It's working fine, although I'm not sure if it comes with asterisk or
> > with bristuff ...
>
> What the OP was asking about was... if * phone x123 and x234 are both
> ringing, how can he remotely pickup the call from x123 _only_.

pickup.pl - I'm trying to get into a form that is world-consumable.

Its a little AGI script that I made that uses the Manager interface to 
Redirect ringing calls based on user selection.

Would that be something like what you're looking for or no?

-josiah