[Asterisk-Users] A TDM issue..

[Robert Webb]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:24:20 -0400
  Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com> 
wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 09:43, chouck wrote:
>> I assure you I have read the asterisk handbook many 
>>times.  The
>> immediate=yes is for picking up a phone on an fxs and 
>>having it immediately
>> dial an extension.  I am looking for someone to dial an 
>>extension and have
>> it immediately pick up the phone on an fxs port.
> 
> I misread your message then, I apologize.
> 
> immediate=yes means it immeditely enters the dialplan at 
>the given context's 
> 's' extension.  It can dial an extension, execute an 
>AGI, make your coffee... 
> whatever you have in the dialplan.
> 
> Now to answer your question though -- how do you intend 
>for Asterisk to 
> physically pick up some telephone somewhere?  Are you 
>wanting extension 5, 
> for example, to not ring a telephone on an FXS port but 
>have the phone 
> automatically answer?  The phone needs to have 
>auto-answer capability...  
> Asterisk can't make something answer a line, it can only 
>ring the FXS port 
> and wait for the connected device to answer...
> 
> -A.


Andrew,

   I just went back and read his original post. The port 
is interfacing with an intercomm system that does answer 
immediately. So what you have given him should work fine.

Robert