[Asterisk-Users] "Please Press Any Key to Accept a Call"

[BJ Weschke]

 For everyone that had inquired about the Find-Me/Follow-Me
application, it's now up in the bug tracker at
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5574.

 It should compile cleanly against a 1.2b2 install.

On 10/14/05, BJ Weschke <bweschke at gmail.com> wrote:
>  CF -
>
>  You're right. Most of this can be done with the dial plan. I wrote the app
> though because I wanted to be able to have the option to work with both
> channels at the same time through a threaded model. The dial plan doesn't
> let me do that, and there's no reason it should.
>
>  So, in this scenario, we're actually dialing already to the first number on
> the list while the caller is still hearing the annunciator from Allyson
> about "please wait while we try and connect your call". The approach right
> now is really simple and probably could have been done in the dial plan, but
> I kind of envisioned expanding upon this over time and trying to get the app
> to act like the Wildfire follow-me application works now with some Sphinx
> integration down the road. It's going to be a little while before we give
> things like Wildfire a run for their money, but Mark, Digium, and the
> Asterisk community have given us a more than adequate platform and framework
> to get us there.
>
>
> On 10/14/05, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > BJ, thanks alot for the coding but I see no reason for it as all you
> > mention is doable currently in Asterisk using some DP magic.
> > Will just search the list and you should find some examples on how to
> > do it (I think there is even an example on the wiki try:
> > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-asterisk+cmd+dial )
> >
> > On 10/14/05, BJ Weschke <bweschke at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  I have coded a new application in Asterisk called app_followme that
> will do
> > > what you're looking for. The caller who made the call originally is also
> > > optionally put on hold music while the hunt is going on. There's also
> > > planned functionality for "blacklisting" certain callerIDs so a caller
> who
> > > is blacklisted will think the find-me/follow-me is working, but in
> reality
> > > it's just putting them in a holding pattern and then routing them to
> > > voicemail after waiting for about 20-30 seconds <evil grin>.
> > >
> > >  The code isn't really cleaned up yet from my initial alpha / unit
> testing
> > > on it which is why I haven't put it on the bugtracker yet, but it's
> quite
> > > functional now and I'd like for more people to start testing it if they
> see
> > > a use for this. I'll try to get it up there in the next couple days.
> It's
> > > new functionality, and therefore, won't make it into the 1.2 release of
> > > Asterisk, but it doesn't really interfere with much anything else in
> > > Asterisk so you should be able to apply the patch cleanly to any recent
> HEAD
> > > branch and probably 1.2 once it's released.
> > >
> > >  BJ
> > >
> > > On 10/14/05, Will Glass-Husain <wglass at forio.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to add a feature to my asterisk system that tries to find a
> user
> > > among a couple of locations, and then goes to internal voicemail if the
> user
> > > doesn't pick up.  (e,g, an internal extension and a cell phone).  The
> catch
> > > is that I want the user to manually accept the call to prevent it from
> going
> > > (for example) to the voice mail on my cell phone.
> > > >
> > > > Scenario
> > > > * Call comes in, outside caller dials "100"
> > > > * Desk phone for user Joe rings.  No answer
> > > > * Joe's house phone rings.
> > > > * Joe's wife picks up and hears a voice "Please press any key to
> accept a
> > > call for extension 100."
> > > > * Joe's wife hangs up.
> > > > * Joe's cell phone rings.
> > > > * Joe picks up and hears a voice "Please press any key to accept a
> call
> > > for extension 100."
> > > > * Joe presses 1 and says "Hello this is Joe".
> > > >
> > > > Alternately, in the penultimate step
> > > > * Cell voice mail picks up.
> > > > * Voice says "Please press any key to accept a call for extension
> 100".
> > > No keys pressed since it's a voice mail
> > > > * Call is routed to Asterisk voicemail.
> > > >
> > > > It seems straight forward to try multiple locations, but I'm not
> seeing
> > > how to only patch the call through if the user responds with a key
> press.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > WILL
> > > >
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