[asterisk-users] Which Variable???

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The call is not answered until you answer it with either the Answer
app, or issuing a playback command etc.

On 11/5/07, Gordon Henderson <gordon+asterisk at drogon.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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