[Asterisk-Users] Zap Detect called party pickup

[Justin Newman]

>Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:39:26 +0100 (CET)
>From: Peter Svensson <psvasterisk at psv.nu>
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zap Detect called party pickup
>
>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.

We have a module that will do this detection.