[Asterisk-Users] Forwarding To Cell Phones with Asterrisk PBX

[Moody]

Colin, 

I'm not sure this helps the problem, if you want to try DIALs the
caller is still left hanging during each 30 or 40 second period.

As for timing the call, be careful of voicemail on busy as I think
you'll find that most cell phone voicemail will also answer if the
line is busy/off/not-in-service.

I have been using the 'press 1 to accept' macro and find it works well
but doesn't address the time issue for multiple destinations. My best
solution to that is a fixed "Please hold while we connect you" message
(and not using 'r' in the DIAL cmd).

I have also tried to use '&' in the DIAL parameter without success as
it does not wait for the macro to complete but rather simply an answer
so Asterisk drops all other outgoing attempts before the macro is
complete.

Am I missing a trick to dial multiple destination over multiple
channels (SIP/IAX) at once and not merge the channels until after the
DIAL macro is complete?

Jonathon



On 5/16/05, Colin Anderson <ColinA at landmarkmasterbuilder.com> wrote:
>   
> exten => 12345,1,Dial(SIP/12345,40) 'Dial extension 12345 for 40 seconds. If
> no one picks up then... 
> exten => 12345,2,Dial(ZAP/g0/5551212,25) 'Forward the call out to the user's
> cell. Once they pick up, a native bridge of ZAP channels occur and Asterisk
> is out 'of the media stream 
> exten => 12345,3,(anything else that happens later, like go to voicemail,
> etc) 
>   
> It's important to time how long it takes for the remote user's cellphone to
> pick up for voicemail. If the user's voicemail on the cell kicks in after,
> say 4 rings, time your second Dial() command to be just short of that,
> otherwise the remote caller will get the cell phone's voicemail, which is
> probably not the desired behavior. In my case, I set it for 25 seconds, as
> our cells' voicemail kicks in after 30 seconds. If there's no call pickup on
> the cell, call processing continues to the next priority, which is voicemail
> or IVR depending on what number they called. 
>