[Asterisk-Users] How to dial several extensions with differenttimeouts

[brett at websmyths.com]

On 8/10/2005, "Irakli Natsvlishvili"
<irakli.natsvlishvili at thinkingvoice.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I know that using & it is possible to dial several channels.
>
> Question is - is it possible and if yes, how to dial several channels with
> different ringing timeout?
>
> I mean the following - for example when SIP/500 is dialed, I want three
> phones to be dialed simultaneously - 1000, 2000 and 3000. During 10
> seconds all phones are ringing, next 10 second phones 2000 and 3000 are
> ringing and after 20 seconds only extension 3000 is ringing.
>
> If I use & in dial command, then all extensions are ringing
>simultaneously, but ringing timeout after comma is set for all channels,
> am I right?
>
> 500,1,Dial(SIP/1000&SIP/2000&SIP/3000,30)

So be creative!  8-)

500,1,Dial(SIP/1000&SIP/2000&SIP/3000,10)
500,2,Dial(SIP/2000&SIP/3000,10)
500,3,Dial(SIP/3000,10)

Total ring time 30 seconds after the call.

This could get a little convoluted depending on what you really want to do
with it.

Brett