[asterisk-users] Waiting time to send the call

[Matt Riddell]

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Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 July 2008 21:59:02 Matt Riddell wrote:
>> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 14:27:26 bilal ghayyad wrote:
>>>> Can anyone advise how to increase the waiting time to consider the
>>>> number is dialed (if user pickup the analoge phone and start dialing the
>>>> digits, then we need to asterisk to enough time to consider that number
>>>> is done and sent it). How?
>>> An analog phone, assuming you're not set up in immediate mode, never does
>>> this.  If you're talking about an Asterisk IVR, then simply set
>>> TIMEOUT(digit) to something higher than the default (5).  If you're using
>>> an analog phone connected to an ATA device, then you need to check with
>>> the manufacturer of that ATA device.
>> What about on exten => _123X.,1,Dial(Zap/g1/${EXTEN:1})
>>
>> Is there an option for length of time before it actually sends out the
>> call?
> 
> There is not.  The response timeout in this case is hardcoded to 10 seconds
> and the digit timeout is hardcoded to 5 seconds.  You could change it to
> something else if something in the dialplan was already executing (such as
> obtaining a new extension with WaitExten), but otherwise, you are stuck with
> the defaults.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

We had someone complain that it takes too long after they finish dialing
a variable length phone number (international) and in the same email
that it didn't wait long enough when they were slow typing a number.

:D

Would be cool if you could decrease the time the further into the number
they got :D

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Kind Regards,

Matt Riddell
Director
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