James Arscott wrote: > Hi, thanks to the original poster, I redid all the cabling and immediately > got the span to go OK between asterisk and the siemens legacy PBX. Only > problem now is working out how to handle the calls from the siemens.... > Worth pointing out at this stage I have no access to the siemens > configuration, so I could be shooting blind. > > I put span2 (which is connected to the siemens) into its own context > (inbound-from-siemens) and then tried to few simple attempts at Œreceiving¹ > the calls that the siemens is trying to make. However whatever I put all I > get via the asterisk console is : > > -- Extension '' in context 'inbound-from-siemens' from 'xxxxxx' does not > exist. Rejecting call on channel 0/31, span 2 > > That comes up each time a call is attempted from the siemens, the xxxxxx > shows as whichever direct dial number tried to dial out on the siemens, > which I initially was pleased to see, however I am now stumped at how I > should try to get asterisk to deal with these calls, am I barking up the > wrong tree ?
No you are slowing barking up the right tree :-) The call is getting accepted by Asterisk in the context inbound-from-siemens. However it can't work out what to do with the call. You need to match the xxxxxx number with a extension number which is in the inbound-from-siemens context or another context included in it. For instance if the xxxxxxx number is 123456 you could use. [inbound-from-siemens] exten => 123456,1,Dial(SIP/101) to dial SIP phone 101 or if the numbers from the siemens follow a pattern ie they all start with 12 then you could use exten => _12XXXX,1,Dial(SIP/101) If you check the extensions.conf page at www.voip-info.org/wiki you will see loads of examples on how to construct a dialplan HTH Jon -- Jon Farmer Telford, Shropshire, UK _______________________________________________ --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
