On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Bill Andersen wrote: > OK, I understand that. But if I gotta learn how to support > myself to do advanced features, why pay them at all? I'll > just become my own expert :()
That's how I started... Sit-down and work out what features you want - and do you want them supported in the phones or in the system - eg. features like divert or do not disturb - many phones have this feature, but they need to be turned on for them to work, or you can implement them in the PBX itself. Similarly for speed dialling, etc. I took the approach that if I could make the PBX work with the dumbest of phones then it'd work for any phone regardless of it's features, so implemented a whole raft of "star codes" in the PBX itself. So to implement do not disturb, I have: ; *490: *491: ; Clear/Set Do Not Disturb exten => *490,1,Answer() exten => *490,n,Macro(clearStarCode,doNotDisturb) exten => *491,1,Answer() exten => *491,n,Set(dndCode=${EXTEN:3}) exten => *491,n,Set(DB(${CALLERID(num)}/doNotDisturb)=${dndCode}) exten => *491,n,Macro(starAck) but then you need to handle it in the bit that handles calls internally, so mine looks like: ; Check for Do Not Disturb exten => s,n,Set(DND=${DB(${MACRO_EXTEN}/doNotDisturb)}) exten => s,n,GotoIf(${DND}?:doneDoNotDisturb) exten => s,n,Wait(90) exten => s,n,Hangup() exten => s,n(doneDoNotDisturb),Noop(Carrying on after DO NOT DISTURB Check) and so on ... There are other ways to do this, and other better/different? macros to handle dialling and so on, or you might want to do it all in AGI, AEL, or... My systems are completely done in dialplan as I've found it adequate for my needs and this includes setting up IAX trunks between offices which work out the correct site & caller id without using DUNDi I just googled & searched through the books and voip-wiki for dialplan examples and built it up from there. Keep It Simple is my motto and I'm not putting a MySQL database on a diskless system when it's not needed... Over complexity for the sake of nerdyness really peeves me! (But it could be argued that that's because I was brought up on trying to squeeze programs into 256 byte of RAM too many years ago ;-) Enjoy! Gordon _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users