[asterisk-users] Page() bumps user out of a call

[Russ Meyerriecks]

On 6/14/11 4:25 PM, Russ Meyerriecks wrote:
> On 6/14/11 9:26 AM, Cassius Smith wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I'm having a problem with my intercom function that I use for under-chin
>> paging. I'm running 1.6.2.13 on this server, and we use Linksys SPA-942's
>> for our general phones. I have a global defined which has all the SIP
>> channels concatenated together - this is ${ALL-PAGE-EXTS}.
>>
>> The problem comes when a user is on the line, and someone else uses the
>> intercom function to page all extensions, the call in progress gets
>> disconnected. I'm wondering if there is a way to either:
>> 1. dynamically figure out the subset of extensions that are not in a
>> call,
>> or
>> 2. use some other function that will not bump a call?
>>
>> Has anyone else run into this?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Cassius
>>
>> Here is my intercom context:
>>
>> [intercom]
>> exten => s,1,Answer
>> exten => s,n,Playback(beep)
>> exten => s,n,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=5)
>> exten => s,n,WaitExten(10)
>>
>> exten => t,1,NoOp(timeout)
>> exten => t,n,Playback(sorry-youre-having-problems&goodbye)
>> exten => t,n,Hangup()
>>
>> exten => *,1,SIPAddHeader(Call-Info:<sip:${SERVER_IP}>\;answer-after=0)
>> exten => *,n,Page(${ALL-PAGE-EXTS}) ; add all your devices here
>>
>> exten => _XXXX,1,SIPAddHeader(Call-Info:
>> <sip:${SERVER_IP}>\;answer-after=0) ; 4 digit extensions
>> exten => _XXXX,n,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN})
>
> Hey Cassius!
> Nice to hear from you, what crazy country are you deploying Asterisk in
> now? You might want to checkout the DEVICE_STATE() function. Should be
> able to build your ALL-PAGE-EXTS while leaving out the busy extensions.
> Probably not the best solution, but the first one I thought of.
>

This may be a better solution, actually. Checkout example 1. It sets up 
a macro to handle the check for each extension.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+Page

-- 
Russ Meyerriecks
Digium | Linux Kernel Developer