Using time condition to screen specific callers - possible?

[YoungOrtho]

Is it possible to have a specific incoming caller not ring any extensions at certain times of the day? What I am trying to accomplish (at my home) is this:


When someone calls my office after hours they have an option of pressing 1, which will connect them to my "cellphone" if they *really* need to speak to me. What it actually does is connect them to my google voice number, which then rings my cell phone and my home phone. My home phone is a PBIAF setup. What I would like to happen is that when my home PBIAF sees an incoming call from my office between the hours of 11 pm and 6 am, have it not ring any extensions, and after the normal amount of time, my google voicemail would take the call so they can leave a message (on GV, not on my PBIAF voicemail).

I think (but haven't tested yet) that I may be able to accomplish this by setting up a dummy extension that doesn't have VM activated, and during the hours I don't want to be disturbed have it ring that extension directly. But what I'm not sure about is if I can set that up to apply only when the incoming caller is my office number. Any other caller during those hours should still ring my phones normally. Would that kind of setup be possible?

-Dave

 

[wardmundy]

Sure. Just dedicate an IPkall or SIPgate DID to those calls and route GV to that DID and that DID to an extension with no voicemail and no attached device.

 

[YoungOrtho]

I edited my first message as I don't think I explained it clearly the first time.

I do want my home phone to ring when it sees an incoming call from my office (except during the 11 pm-6am time period) so I would need my extensions to ring at all other times.

I guess what I'm not clear about is if I can setup a time condition for a specific incoming number so that I can route to the dummy extension from 11pm to 6 am, but only if the incoming call is from my office number.

-Dave

 

[dswartz]

Have you looked at time conditions? I think you should be able to create an inbound route for that CID that goes to a time condition that either then goes to the standard ring group, or waits infinitely (until GV takes the call back?) One good possibility: if you look at time conditions, one (badly name) destination is "Terminate call". There is a pull-down menu where one of the choices is "put caller on hold forever".

 

[wardmundy]

You don't want to answer the call on the Asterisk side IF you want GV voicemail to kick in. Once the call is answered, GV is out of the loop.

 

[dswartz]

ah, well, not an expert on GV for sure. i wonder if you could finesse this with custom extension stuff to avoid the answering? or maybe forward it to GV mail somehow?