[Asterisk-Users] Attended transfer not working (atxfer)

[Damian Minkov]

Yes I do the same and the user to which I want to tranfer hears the beep 
but the channels doesn't get bridged

Brian Capouch wrote:

> Damian Minkov wrote:
>
>> Ok, but it doesn't work. It prompts me again to transfer.
>>
>> The secretary's phone rings - she picks up and talk to the gay. Then 
>> hits **(Trasfer key sequence ) for atxfer - hears transfer prompt and 
>> dials the trasferee numer.
>> Talks with the trasferee numer. The I tested firstly just the 
>> secretary to hangup, I thought the two calls will be connected - but 
>> no lusk.
>> Then I tried as Bruno De Luca wrote the secretary to hit again 
>> **(Trasfer key sequence ), but just hears a transfer prompt.
>> Any ideas. What I'm doing wrong?
>>
>
> Bruno was wrong about hitting the transfer sequence a second time.
>
> Watch the CLI.  If you don't have certain sound files installed it 
> won't actually do the transfer, but will return you back to the 
> original transferer.
>
> Here it works like this:
> Answer call
> Hit atxfer sequence defined in features.conf
> Get "fake" dialtone
> Dial transferee
> Talk to transferee
> Hang up
> Remote party hears "beep"
> Transferee is now bridged to remote party
>
> I haven't found Asterisk to be very good about grabbing the DTMF when 
> the fake dialtone is playing.  In fact, I can't get it to work at all 
> on calls that come in on my POTS lines, and it is very unreliable 
> otherwise as well.
>
> YMMV.
>
> B.
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