[Asterisk-Users] Zap Detect called party pickup

[Peter Svensson]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 patrick_healy at nywd.uscourts.gov wrote:

> I have been playing with getting the sample.call file to work by dropping it into
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing.  The process works to the point of calling the desired
> number and plays the message.  The problem is that the message starts playing almost
> immediately, so if the called person takes 2 or 3 rings to pick up the phone, half the
> message has already been played.

You need answer supervision on your line. It is available on isdn lines
and some analogue lines. 

Peter