[asterisk-users] DAHDI FXO port only recognizes the "S" extension‏

[Jim Dickenson]

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Jim Dickenson
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On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:20 AM, A J Stiles wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 Sep 2010, Songtao Yu wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> When I tried to write my dial plan as below for my FXO port, which connects
>> one PSTN line:
>> 
>> [from-pstn]
>> exten =>s,1,Answer()
>> exten =>s,n,Wait(1)
>> exten =>_X.,1,Dial(DAHDI/1)
>> exten =>_X.,n,Hangup
>> 
>> I got the following message:
>> Connected to Asterisk 1.6.2.13 currently running on fax (pid = 8154)
>> Verbosity was 0 and is now 4
>>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>    -- Executing [s at from-pstn:1] Answer("DAHDI/1-1", "") in new stack
>>    -- Executing [s at from-pstn:2] Wait("DAHDI/1-1", "1") in new stack
>>    -- Auto fallthrough, channel 'DAHDI/1-1' status is 'UNKNOWN'
>>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>> 
>> But if I changed the "_X." to "S" extension, I can get the whole thing to
>> work well: [from-pstn]
>> exten =>s,1,Answer()
>> exten =>s,n,Wait(1)
>> exten =>s,n,Dial(DAHDI/3)
>> exten =>s,n,Hangup
>> 
>> Would you please let me which casuses this issue?
> 
> Extensions represent different numbers dialled by the calling party.
> 
> An FXO port has only *one* number associated with it -- the number of the POTS 
> line to which it is connected.  It does not, therefore, have to be able to 
> differentiate between extensions.  Incoming calls just go straight to the "s" 
> extension of the context associated with the channel.
> 
> If for some reason you have more than one FXO port  (ordinarily, you would get 
> multiple lines by means of ISDN),  then just bring each one in on a separate 
> context.
> 

Either that or look at the channel in the dialplan and do what you want based on which channel the call was received on.

> -- 
> AJS
> 
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