[asterisk-users] Right way to prevent analog channel from answering the phone?

[Nick Ellson]

Erm.. nothing that I know of, other than I do not yet know what that 
means? :)



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Nick Ellson
CCDA, CCNP, CCSP, CCAI,
MCSE 2000, Security+, Network+
Network Hobbyist, VFR Private Pilot.


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:

> What is wrong with using the WaitForRing app?
>
> Rich Adamson wrote:
>>  Nick Ellson wrote:
>> > 
>> >  I am in the process of learning my A1200P, and i would like an elegant 
>> >  way to prevent it from answering the phone, but still make outbound 
>> >  calls. I tried zap destroy channel 1 (which worked, but pissed off 
>> >  Asterisk ;)
>> > 
>> >  Is there a more elegant way to tell it to answer/not answer on command?
>>
>>  I don't have an A1200P, but most zap channel interfaces are built to not
>>  answer an incoming call unless you specifically configure asterisk to do
>>  it.
>>
>>  There are only two basic conditions under which an incoming call will be
>>  answered:
>>  1. by including the "answer" statement, like:
>>      exten => 3556,1,Answer
>>      exten => 3556,2,Wait,1
>>      exten => 3556,3,Authenticate(3017)
>>      exten => 3556,4,Meetme(3556|pM)
>>  2. a SIP phone (or other phone) user picks up the handset.
>>
>>  So, in zapata.conf you have definitions for each of the A1200P ports, and
>>  one of the items in those definitions is "context=<something>". If that
>>  context statement points to some non-existent context name (like
>>  context=xyz), there is nothing that would answer the incoming call.
>>
>>  If the context=<something> points to a real context (in extensions.conf),
>>  then review that context to ensure there is nothing there to answer the
>>  incoming call. (Note: some asterisk applications will automatically answer
>>  incoming calls.)
>>
>>  You could also define that context and include statements like:
>>  [no-answer]
>>  exten => _X.,1,Hangup
>>
>>
>>
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