I recently acquired an IP04 embedded asterisk appliance from Rowetel.com, and have been playing with it on and off.
As a "thought experiment", I decided to set it up to handle the extension
phones in my house. I've got a dialplan in place that permits each extension
to direct-dial outward, and for incoming calls to be passed onwards to an
extension.
I also have extension-to-extension calls, using a set of reserved 4digit
numbers (7000 through 7999). But I don't like this scheme for
extension-to-extension calls, and would rather enable them with an "escape
sequence"; #10 - #99.
There isn't anything in "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony" on the octothorpe
key, and the little I've seen online (and I've done a fair amount of Google
searching) says that, for dialplans, the octothorpe (or hash or pound) can
only be used in a number-matching regexp, like
exten = _#.,1,NoOp()
I've done something like
[numberplan-local]
exten = _123XXXXXXX,1,....
...
exten = _#,1,Goto(hashmark,s,1)
[hashmark]
exten = s,1,Playback(if-u-know-ext-dial)
exten = 10,1,SayDigits(10)
exten = 11,1,SayDigits(11)
exten = 20,1,SayDigits(20)
as a test dialplan. When I dial #, the "If you know the extension" soundbite
plays, and then I hear an immediate fast-busy signal. This happens whether I
enter digits after the hash or not. It appears that my "hashmark" context
only works partially, playing soundclips, but ignoring number entries.
So, I'm at a loss. I've tried variations, such as
[numberplan-local]
exten = _123XXXXXXX,1,....
...
exten = _#NN,1,Goto(hashmark,${EXTEN},1)
[hashmark]
exten = #10,1,SayDigits(10)
exten = #11,1,SayDigits(11)
exten = #20,1,SayDigits(20)
and others, but still the same problem; I can't get Asterisk to recognize and
act on numbers dialed after the hash.
Can anyone give me a clue? What's happening in Asterisk that's causing the
hash key to act so oddly? How do I get Asterisk to accept values dialed after
the hashmark?
Any suggestions?
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