On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:44:36PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > I have a few asterisk/callweaver questions. Callweaver docs seem to be > very rudimentary, so I've looked at asterisk docs, but still can't find > the answers I need. > > Here are my questions, any help would be appreciated. I've tried to do a > web search and looked at the Oreily book with no luck. > > 1. How do you force an invalid extension directly dialed to voicemail. > For example, if you have a menu, you can use the i extension, but what > if someone dials it directly from an external (SIP) phone? For example > if I don't have an extension 1234, if you dial it, you get the beep- > beep-beep the ... is unavailable message.
An invalid extension still goes somewhere in the dialplan. Use that fallback. In some cases this is as simple as providing a catch-all extension - _X. and such. Patterns have lower matching priority than actual extensions. > > I want it to go to a voicemail box. The i extension does not work. exten => 1234,1,Dial(SIP/geoffreymendelson) exten => _X.,1,Voicemail(geoffreymendelson) > > 2. How do you force the context for an external SIP device or system. I > have an X-Lite softphone and I want to FORCE the calls to a context. It > always uses the context of the domain name. The context= setting in > sip.conf does not work. Note, I want this to work no matter what is in > the context setting, if there is one in X-Lite itself. in sip.conf: [xlite] ... context = the-context-you-want-to-force If this does not work, you messed something with the authentication. Also - disable guest login. > > 3. Does anyone have a talking clock that works under Callweaver? I found > a PERL program for asterisk, but the beeps keep disappearing. I ended up > writing one in extensions.conf, but it's not very accurate, and has to be > IMHO the worst abuse of a config file I have every heard of. :-) exten => 1235,1,SayUnixTime() -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
