Thanks for the tip!
On 7/9/10 11:35 AM, "Faisal Hanif" <[email protected]> wrote: > Do some R & D with asterisk function AMD (Answering Machine Detection) if > that can help you. > > Signatures [email protected] > > Regards, > > Faisal Hanif > > > > On 7/9/2010 11:24 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote: >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Edwards >> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 12:10 PM >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion >> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] False answer() being sent by cellphone >> providers >> >> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Mike Ely wrote: >> >> >>> >>>> >>>> I've set up an outbound alerting system to play a recording when systems >>>> >>> >> >> go >> >>> >>>> >>>> down, etc. and I'm noticing that cellphones tend to answer() and then >>>> >>> >> >> start >> >>> >>>> >>>> ringing the actual handset. So far, I've verified this behavior with >>>> Verizon, T-Mobile, and Google Voice (the last produces a SERIOUS delta >>>> between bogus answer and actual answer). >>>> >>>> Has anyone figured out how to detect the actual cellphone answer rather >>>> >>> >> >> than >> >>> >>>> >>>> the bogus one sent by the cell carrier? In the short term, I just have >>>> >>> >> >> the >> >>> >>>> >>>> call play MOH for ten seconds before announcing that all hell has broken >>>> loose in the server room, but it¹d be nice to have something a bit more >>>> accurate and reliable. >>>> >>> >> >> >> How about a loop with "Please press pound to continue?" >> -- >> It is a DAHDI "function" that you may or may not get a reliable >> "notification" of answer. The best thing to do is to MOH for 7 seconds, >> then play a message "this is a message from the computer room; press 1 to >> accept". This lets you not waste time on a "not real" answer. Here is a >> "cliff-note" context: >> [accept] >> exten => s,1,Answer >> exten => s,n,WaitExten(7) >> exten => s,n,Background(important) >> exten => s,n,WaitExten(5,m) >> exten => 1,1,backgrounf(message) >> exten => 1,n,hangup >> exten => t,1,hangup >> exten => i,1,hangup >> exten => *,1,hangup >> > > -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
