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