[asterisk-users] Can asterisk give half-ring periodically for MWI?

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

Yeah, it's a hack for half-rings, but a little less so for putting 
someone right into voicemailmain without delay. 

Moj

Justin Ridge wrote:
> That's a clever idea, and it sounds like a viable solution.  But (and not knocking your inventiveness in any way), its a bit of a hack to get around what seems like a clear limitation.
>
> I'll keep looking for a more elegant solution over the next couple of days, and give this a go if nothing "cleaner" turns up.  Thanks for suggesting it!
>
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> From: "Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC" <mojo at horanappraisals.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 2:43:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Can asterisk give half-ring periodically for MWI?
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> For my wife I recently set up a cron schedule that, every ten minutes, 
> greps the output of "show voicemail users" for a new message waiting.  
> Upon finding one, it dumps a call file into asterisk's outgoing 
> directory that rings the house phone and, when one is picked up, it 
> connects the user to voicemailmain.   You could put a waittime of just 
> three or four seconds, that should give approx. half a ring and then 
> stop....  
>
> Moj
>
> Justin Ridge wrote:
>   
>> Hi all, 
>>
>> Configuration: Analog phone connected to TDM400p. 
>>
>> I'd like the phone to give a half-ring (chirp) periodically when there 
>> is a message waiting.  Can this be done?  How is it configured? 
>>
>> The visible "Message waiting" indicator and the stutter dial tone are 
>> working fine, but are not sufficient for me. 
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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