callweaver/asterisk questions

[Tzafrir Cohen]

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()

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