[asterisk-users] Which Variable???

[Gordon Henderson]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:

> Jeng Yu wrote:
>> Hi Gurus!
>>
>> Please excuse this pesky Asterisk rookie....:-)
>>
>> I just wanted to know which channel variable tells
>> asterisk the number of rings before an incoming call
>> on FXO channel is answered?
>>
>> I looked through zapata.conf.sample and other places
>> and could not find something there readily.
>
> There is no such setting.  Asterisk will answer as soon as the call
> comes in.  If Asterisk is configured for Caller*ID, then Asterisk will
> wait until the 2nd ring (waiting for Caller*ID information to arrive).

Not neccessarily true in the UK where the caller ID is transmitted before 
the first ring.

If you want to delay answering, then you can use the Wait instruction in 
the dialplan, but it's caligrated in seconds not "rings". (Which are 
highly country dependant anyway)

Gordon