[Asterisk-Users] *8 nor *8# works for me!

[Walt Reed]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:39:44PM +0800, Ronald Wiplinger said:
> Eric Wieling wrote:
> 
> >>>I have put into each phone settings (sip.conf and zapata.conf) in my
> >>>office:
> >>>
> >>>callgroup=1
> >>>pickupgroup=1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I cannot pickup any calls from another phone!!
> >>>What do I miss here?
> >>
> >
> >Your SIP phone is eating the *8.  You need to look at your SIP phone 
> >docs, not Asterisk
> >
> What am I going to look for, e.g., in a manual for snom 190 and a 
> Budgetone ???

See the Wiki:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+features.conf

I had the same problem with Cisco ATA's screwing with the *, so I
changed mine to a normal number and everything works great. I never did
figure out how to make the cisco pass the *8 properly. 


> 
> 
> bye
> 
> Ronald
> 
> 
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