[asterisk-users] Delay in Dial()

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Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> Stephen Bosch wrote:
>> Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
>>> Steve Finkelstein wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any syntax I can use to put a delay in two lines being dialed?
>>>> One is a SIP endpoint, the other is my cell phone. I'd like to have the
>>>> SIP phone ring for some arbitrary number of seconds before it is sent
>>>> off to the mobile phone. Using something like a Wait() within a Dial()
>>>> would be ideal.
>>> [extensions]
>>>
>>> exten => 666,1,Dial(Local/desk at extensions@Local/cell at extensions)
>>>
>>> exten => desk,1,Dial(SIP/deadbeef-a)
>>>
>>> exten => cell,1,Wait(15)
>>> exten => cell,2,Dial(Zap/G1/5551212)
>>
>> Wouldn't just using the Dial timeout option do the same thing more
>> elegantly?
>>
>> Or do you want the SIP phone to keep ringing?
> 
> No.  Dial(SIP/desk&SIP/cell) would find BOTH phones at the same time.
> 
> The original poster wants the desk phone to ring, then after X seconds,
> KEEP ringing the desk phone, but also ring the cell phone.
> 
> Using the Dial timeout would STOP ringing the desk phone then, start
> ringing the desk phone again and also ring the cell phone.
> 

and how long in seconds would you think it takes * to step from the
first dial to the second? Is this a real risk?

> I don't know about you but it would seem pretty unprofessional to me if
> my deskphone rang, I went to pick it up, got a dialtone because I did
> not get to it in time, then before I hungup the deskphone Asterisk rang
> both the desk and cell phone.  Since the deskphone is offhook the call
> could go immediately to voicemail and then there would be no call when
> you rushed over to pick up the cell phone.
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