[asterisk-users] Is there any way to make call fail after # of rings?

[Ishfaq Malik]

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 04:00 -0500, CDR wrote:
> My customer needs to set a forwarding based on number of rings,i.e.,
> if the phone rings 5 times (user-selectable), then try another number.
> Is there a way to do such a thing with Asterisk? I could not find way
> to do it based on the documentation of the Dial function. The protocol
> is SIP only, however, I could use a different one if it provided a
> workaround. If this is the wrong tool for the job, what technology
> would do this?
> 

'Phone rings' are not a standard unit of measurement. Is there a problem
with defining the time in seconds? If not then Dial can do this for you.

Regards

Ish

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