Well in my setup I have a few IP phones connected to Asterisk as well as POTS phones on my analog line. When a call for my daughter comes in on the analog line (determined from callerID) I send it to her own voicemail after 20 seconds of ringing. It all works quite well.
Here's a step-by-step of what happens below: 1 - a call comes in and Asterisk rings SIP/Brian and SIP/joe for 30 seconds. 2 - After 30 seconds if the line is still ringing (nobody picked up POTS phone or SIP phones) * answers the line and sends to Voicemail. Asterisk never picks up the call until the 30 seconds are up. [from-pots] exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/brian&SIP/joe,30) exten => s,2,Voicemail(u2001) exten => s,3,Hangup >Right. My original question was about making >Asterisk wait a number or >rings (or amount of time) before picking up a Zap >line. If the >rings/time were not reached while the line is still >ringing, do nothing. > >This allows a handset *on the same POTS line* as >Asterisk to pick up and >Asterisk does nothing. But if nobody picks up the >POTS line (that >asterisk is on too) then it picks up. > >I essentially want Asterisk to be an answering >machine on the line. > >b. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users