[Asterisk-Users] Ringing a few phones

[Robert Goodyear]

On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Shidan wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Shidan
>> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:01 AM
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>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Ringing a few phones
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>> I have a client requirement that multiple phones can be dialed,
>> however they don't want the pstn phone to pick up automatically
>> because of  voicemail etc, nothing can be changed on the phones, how
>> can I handle this requirement, by the way no zap channels are
>> involved, all the pstn phones are behing another sip gateway.
>>
> On 6/8/05, Jennifer Hales <jhales at ains.net.au> wrote:
>> If you want to dial a number of phones at the same time do "exten =>
>> 5000,1,Dial(SIP/5000&SIP/5001&SIP?5002).  The & value is what does 
>> the job.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Jenn
> Hi Jen thanks for the info but I already knew that, what I want is for
> it to not get picked up by voicemail on one of the channels. dialing
> them in sequence is not an option either, and as I mentioned changing
> the settings on the actual phones isn't an option either.  I remember
> there was an option for the user to hit * to accept the call but I
> think thats only with ZAP, anyone know of a solution to this problem
> or something similar for SIP.
>
> ----
> Shidan
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More details needed. If you cannot control the behavior of the phones 
behind the other SIP GW (as you described it) then your only option is 
to control the duration of ringing to just below the threshold of 
pickup on those phones. Also, what happens when one of those phones is 
busy? If it goes straight to VM then that'll blow the whole timeout 
trick.



Robert Goodyear
Brand Up LLC
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