[Asterisk-Users] Is it possible to PickupChan / Dial Pickup / Steal a call that has not been answered?

[Lane]

On Monday 11 April 2005 11:47, Rich Adamson wrote:
> > I have a home user for asterisk that is not ready to let asterisk manage
> > the entire dialplan ... he's still got an answering machine on the
> > outside line and has this in the [incoming] context for that line:
> >
> > exten => s,1,Wait(300)
> > exten => s,2,Answer
> > exten => s,3,DigitTimeout,5
> > exten => s,4,ResponseTimeout,10
> >
> >
> > He does this so the answering machine can answer the phone when he's busy
> > or not available, but can still dial out on asterisk.   The Wait(300)
> > prevents asterisk from answering before the answering machine does.
> >
> > Crazy, huh?
> >
> > Anyway ... he wants to be able to pickup an incoming call during the
> > Wait(300).
> >
> > Can this be done?
>
> Sure, but not with the stuff shown above. Just use something like:
>  [inbound-home]
>  exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/3000,15)
>
> Asterisk won't answer the inbound call unless someone picks up the sip
> phone. If no one picks it up, it stops ringing after 15 seconds. The
> bridged answering machine does its thing whenever it wants to.
>
Thanks.

Man it seems the more difficult the problem, the simpler the solution!

lane