[Asterisk-Users] Detect Dialtone

[Dave Cotton]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 01:23 +0200, Goran Dj. wrote:
> Dialtone detection should be an option in .conf for zap channel, i agree
> with that.
> 
> > Are you trying to play with the case where you have an analog phone
> > bridged on your fxo line, and detect the lack of dialtone when
> > someone is using that analog phone?
> 
> Belive or not, but at some places on the world are still in use some old
> (non-digital) ATC-es which do now provide dial-tone instantly. For
> example, when ATC ARF-102 is very congested with outgoing calls, you
> must wait some (unknown) time to get dialtone (10sec, 1min, 5min...)


Couldn't you just do 2 stage dialing? Dial the outgoing Zap channel and
then wait for exchange to give dialtone.


-- 
Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>