[Asterisk-Users] "s" extension doesn't work with ata

[Scott Nelson]

On Apr 8, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Drew Einhorn wrote:

> ...But how do we get the intial prompt to play
> on an ATA?

On many ATAs you can have it do a "hot-line" dial -- start a call when 
the phone is picked up.  Perhaps you can have your ATA dial 
"@servername" (no phone number, just the @ sign and the server name).

If you do this, this makes the phone act like a regular phone -- you 
pick up the phone and it is connected to the asterisk server, rather 
than the primary way most ATAs work -- you dial a number and it 
connects to the server after you are finished dialing.