Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as an outbound call machine?

2004-09-19 Thread William Suffill
I wouldn't trust it to do any real detection. I use the press # mod in 6 sec mod to be able to fwd to other phone #s without risking hitting the answering machine or wrong person. I don't believe there is any real way to detect what you are after as far as if the call is picked up. You would get

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as an outbound call machine?

2004-09-18 Thread Kenneth Shaw
Jim, What you are probably looking for is a superdialer mechanism, as it is tricky to get Asterisk to do predictive dialing. A superdialer (if you don't know what it is) is basically a forward call succession plan. What happens is that you connect to one phone number after another in successive

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as an outbound call machine?

2004-09-18 Thread Jim Archer
Hi Ken and thanks! That's great! I had never heard of the superdialer app for Asterisk. I'm not sure what you mean by predictive dialing. But we can write php code to go through the database. I need to get this thing to run unatended. Is it possible for Asterisk to recognize busy signals