[asterisk-users] How to set MWI

[Michiel van Baak]

On 13:12, Mon 28 Aug 06, Michael Sampson wrote:
> This is what I have so far
> 
> [app-set-mwi]
> exten => *35,1,Answer
> exten => *35,n,Wait(1)
> exten => *35,n,Playback(please-enter-your&extension)
> exten => *35,n,Read(fromext,then-press-pound,,)
> exten => *35,n,Wait(1)
> exten => *35,n,system(touch 
> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/${fromext}/INBOX/msg0001.txt);
> exten => *35,n,Macro(hangupcall,)
> 
> ; end of [app-set-mwi]
> 
> For some reason I get a busy signal when I dial *35 from an ext.
> I did some playing around and found that if I changed the heading to 
> look like this
> 
> [app-cf-busy-off]
> exten => *35,1,Answer
> exten => *35,n,Wait(1)
> exten => *35,n,Playback(please-enter-your&extension)
> exten => *35,n,Read(fromext,then-press-pound,,)
> exten => *35,n,Wait(1)
> exten => *35,n,system(touch 
> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/${fromext}/INBOX/msg0001.txt);
> exten => *35,n,Macro(hangupcall,)
> 
> ; end of [app-cf-busy-off]
> 
> It works fine. I'm pretty new to editing the extensions.conf files, why 
> can't I make a new app and have it work?

did you do
include => app-set-mwi
in the context where the phone is?
I guess not, so the phone wont know about *35
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