[asterisk-users] Follow Me app question

[David Van Ginneken]

BJ Weschke wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When one uses the follow-me logic to forward calls to lots of phone
>> devices do subsequent calls get routed to the VM (or whatever the 10x
>> is)?
>>
>> In other words, if I want my office, house and cell phones to ring
>> whenever a call comes in and I answer it on my cell, does the next call
>> that comes in when I'm on my cell get sent to VM or does it ring the
>> follow-me group again?
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>  It's going to ring the follow-me group again. Follow-me isn't state 
> aware of profiles already in use, although from what you're saying here, 
> I could kind of understand why you'd want such a feature.
>
>   
You can get around that limitation by using the GROUP and GROUP_COUNT
functions to restrict single calls to each number.

Brief Example (not tested):

[followme-outbound-context-set-in-followme.conf]
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,1,ExecIf($[${GROUP_COUNT(${EXTEN})}>0],Busy,5)
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,n,Set(GROUP()=${EXTEN})
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,n,Dial(SIP/provider/${EXTEN})