David Fishburn wrote:
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I want to create a setup so that when someone calls (and maybe an
autoattendent answers or VM) they can press an internal extension. The
external extension will turn around and make an outgoing call to my cell
phone.
So I was reading through this article:
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20auto-dial%20out
That is entirely the wrong page; that page starts off "If you want to
initiate a call from an external application, there are several ways to
do this. ..."
That is not what you are talking about (having a program outside
Asterisk initiating the call);
you want the all to originate from inside asterisk when certain keys are
pressed.
I am not too clear on what Channel is, I am assuming this should be a trunk
name, so in my case it would be IAX/iax.cc.
I am not sure what the Context is referring too though.
In this case I am not sure what triggers this .call file. I would prefer
to use a local extension to make the outgoing call. That way I can change
the number at will.
It isn't clear from this how much you know or don't about *, but you
might want to
read the O'Reilly book (the authors of whom are frequent contributors to
this list).
The first few chapters will really clarify your understanding of what
Channels and
Contexts are. They will also help you see how to do what you want,
which sounds
like it can all be done in the normal dialplan (extensions.conf) file.
Here's something
I set up:
exten => 234,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN},12,tr)
exten => 234,n,Dial(IAX2/outunlimitel/${FIan},12,tr)
exten => 234,n,Voicemail(u${EXTEN})
exten => 234,n,Hangup
This way if the incoming caller dials 234 they will first get my SIP
phone but,
if I don't answer, the call will go out via IAX to the phone number saved
in the FIan variable; if that call fails, it will go to my voicemail.
You can rip out
parts of it to do what you described above.
