[Asterisk-Users] Wait for X rings before answering?

[Rich Adamson]

Most telcos (and I assume this is true in AU as well) have a standard
right cycle in the CO. In the US, its something like 6 seconds.

What a telephone instrument does in terms of ringing has nothing to do
with it. It can play songs, show a video, or whatever.

If you have callerid configured, then asterisk will consume one ring
cycle looking for the callerid _before_ it jumps to extensions.conf
context. But, from a user perspective, they still hear ringback even
though you don't have any phones ringing as yet. Calculate accordingly.

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> 
> We found that different phones and even different rings on the same phone had 
different timimgs.
> 
> For example, one phone would ring every 2 seconds and another would ring every 3.
> 
> PaulH 
> 
> > Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I realize that it's a timeout but what's implicit in that is that 
> > Asterisk can't detect # of rings just the amount of time spent ringing?  
> > 
> > I have been looking at the reference manual on asteriskguru.com.  They 
> > say it's a timeout but they don't indicate the units.  Is it 
> > milliseconds, microseconds or seconds?
> > 
> > 
> > Dave Cotton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 11:41 -0500, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Derek Whitten wrote:
> > >>     
> > >>> [incoming]
> > >>> exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/myext&SIP/myext1&SIP/myext2,25,t,r)
> > >>> exten => s,2,Voicemail(myext)
> > >>> exten => s,3,Hangup()
> > >>>   
> > >>>       
> > >> Thanks.  This will call/ring multiple extensions but what about 
> > waiting 
> > >> for X rings before going to voicemail?  How do I do that?
> > >>     
> > >
> > > What do you think the 25 does?
> > >
> > > Maybe it's a time or something.
> > >
> > >   
> > 
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