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MusicOnHold Configuration Asterisk 1.2 In Asterisk 1.2.x and above you no longer need to use the mpg123 player to play mp3 files, you can use the asterisk addon “format_mp3”. mpg123 or something similar is still required for mp3…

Call and pickup groups Letting someone else answer a call In the mgcp, SIP, IAX, Skinny and the zapata channels you can define call and pickup groups for phones. Note that call pickup typically only works WITHIN a…

Synopsis Macro Implementation Description Macro(macroname,arg1,arg2…) Executes a macro using the context ‘macro-<macroname>’, jumping to the ‘s’ extension of that context and executing each step, then returning when the steps end or a call to MacroExit is encountered. The…

Synopsis Conditional goto Description GotoIf(condition?[label1][:label2]) GotoIf(condition?[[[context1,]extension1,]priority1]:[[[context2,]extension2,]priority2]) Either label1 or label2 may be omitted (in that case, we just don’t take the particular branch), but not both. GotoIf(condition?label1) If “condition” is true, go to “label1”. If condition is false,…

Asternic: The real-time Asterisk visual operator panel Flash Operator Panel displays information about your Asterisk PBX activity in real time via a standard web browser with Flash plugin. The display and button layout is configurable, you can have…

Note: Update for latest issue, see bug 2973 SMS Service in the USA Q: Is it possible to use the sms_app over zap without the .call file? A: in newer versions of asterisk there is smsq – a…

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® company, is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk®, the industry’s first open source telephony platform. Digium provides hardware and software products, including AsteriskNOW™, the complete open source software appliance; Asterisk Business Edition™,…

Synopsis Set maximum timeout between digits Deprecated in Asterisk v1.2 – use ‘Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=timeout)’ instead Description DigitTimeout(seconds) Once a user begins typing an extension, the user has a maximum of DigitTimeout seconds to type additional digits before Asterisk considers…

Synopsis Plays a background sound, jumping to an extension on receipt of DTMF tones or to the “talk” extension if it detects talking. Description BackgroundDetect(filename[|silence[|min[|max]]]) BackgroundDetect is similar to Background. It plays back a given filename, waiting for…

Synopsis: Executes an AGI compliant application Description: Executes an Asterisk Gateway Interface compliant program on a channel. AGI allows Asterisk to launch external programs written in any language to control a telephony channel, play audio, read DTMF digits,…

FastAGI Implements the Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI) over TCP sockets. This can help alleviate CPU load on your telephony server by relocating resource hungry scripts to another networked server. In order to instruct Asterisk to attempt a network…

MeetMe Synopsis MeetMe conference bridge Description MeetMe([confno][,[options][,pin]]): Enters the user into a specified MeetMe conference If the conference number is omitted, the user will be prompted to enter one. Page Contents Option details Option ‘s’ Option ‘q’ Option…

agents.conf ACD distributes incoming calls to the agents of a Queue. Agents are configured in the file queues.conf: New in Asterisk v1.2.0: The default for ackcall has been changed to “no” instead of “yes” because of a bug…

Asterisk call agents Agents are human beings – well, phone extensions that are used by human beings. Setting up agents in the Asterisk config agents.conf file allows you to then assign agents in your call queues as a…