I thought the aastra phones and asterisk 1.6 had this problem licked unless I am misunderstanding exactly what you are trying to do...
and that you would always use attended transfer.. since you can also use attended transfer as a blind transfer now... it seems you would just program the DSS button to be a speed dial like (*1458) *1 being the attended transfer code in asterisk and 458 being the extension number.. -Christopher -----Original Message----- From: John Novack [mailto:jnov...@stromberg-carlson.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:46 PM To: tom.chad...@nnpa.org.uk; AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] OT: Transfers (Asterisk or Snom or anything that will simply work, please oh please) Dog is my Co-pilot Tom Chadwin wrote: > Hello all > > If I can crave a moment off-topic, I'd love finally to understand whether I > can implement a transfer solution using the Snom expansion module as a BLF. > I have gone round and round in circles trying to get the behaviour I need, > and am also being driven mad by voip-info.org being so out of date. > > Our reception have a Snom 320 with one expansion module. I have set up > Asterisk hints to get the LEDs to monitor extension states. My problem is > that I seem totally unable to stop Asterisk from so rigidly differentiating > between blind and attended transfers. Our existing Avaya has no such > distinction, and I really need to recreate its approach, or I will have > hell's own job gaining acceptance for the new system. > > I have been horrified by this, and complained for years about this behavior. the original designers seemed to have very little real telephony background, and certain misbehaviors were built into the system, and no one with the skills seems either interested in correcting or believes the way Asterisk handles transfers is "better" Most/all REAL telephone systems work the way the Avaya does, and doesn't require the user to plan their transfer in advance this behavior is going to be a problem with any telephone, so if that is a killer, then you will need to stay away from asterisk, or be prepared to seriously modify the code. Then convince the powers that be that transfers need to really work that way There should have only ever been ONE transfer function. There is NO good news here. I also battle windmills in my spare time John Novack ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
