<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Don't know about Asterisk 1.4, but in Asterisk 1.2 it expects the input in seconds. If you try and use 0, it seems to drop back to a default of 5s.<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: MFH <asterisk-admin@hulber.com><br>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com><br>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:37:31 PM<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk as an IVR solution<br><br>
From what I can tell Read allows for a floating point input which uses <br>ast_waitfordigit that accepts milliseconds as input.<br><br>Douglas Garstang wrote:<br>> Admittedly I have not used the ExternalIVR app. Is it any good?<br>><br>> I'm not sure I agree that Asterisk is GOOD for building IVR's. Sure, <br>> it can do it, but boy it is UGLY. There's also the fact that you can't <br>> call Backgound() in a macro, which forces you to use Read() which <br>> won't accept a timeout of <1s. There's no DTMF background detection <br>> while playing SayDigits so you have to roll your own by calling an <br>> external AGI and concatenating sound files. Yuck. By the time you code <br>> in logic for handling timeouts and incorrect responses to menu's with <br>> all the gotos and what-not, it turns into a god aweful mess.<br>><br>> Sure, you can do it.<br>><br>> Doug.<br>><br>><br>><br>> ----- Original
Message ----<br>> From: Steve Totaro <<a ymailto="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com" href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com">stotaro@totarotechnologies.com</a>><br>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <br>> <<a ymailto="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com" href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:37:55 AM<br>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk as an IVR solution<br>><br>><br>><br>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Mark Carpenter <<a ymailto="mailto:mark@sixvoices.com" href="mailto:mark@sixvoices.com">mark@sixvoices.com</a> <br>> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:mark@sixvoices.com" href="mailto:mark@sixvoices.com">mark@sixvoices.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi.<br>><br>> We are building an application that will provide users with the<br>>
ability to call in and report an absence. The caller will have to<br>> validate themselves and the call tree will be dynamic, based on<br>> data in a MySQL database. We will have many customers, each<br>> calling a separate phone number, each having a different call<br>> tree. New customers will be added regularly and we do not want a<br>> solution that requires extensive programming each time (the call<br>> trees are different in subtle ways from each other).<br>><br>> Is Asterisk a great solution for this? If not do you know what<br>> would? If so, we need someone to help us set it up, can you<br>> suggest someone?<br>><br>> Thanks in advance. Best.<br>><br>> Mark<br>><br>><br>> Asterisk certainly is a great solution for this. If you
find you need <br>> or want extra flexibility, the external IVR app. <br>> <a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+ExternalIVR" target="_blank">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+ExternalIVR</a><br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Steve Totaro<br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by <a href="http://www.api-digital.com" target="_blank">http://www.api-digital.com</a> --<br>><br>> AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona<br>> Register Now: <a href="http://www.astricon.net" target="_blank">http://www.astricon.net</a><br>><br>> asterisk-users mailing list<br>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br>> <a href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users"
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