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I have a VoIP box setup with Asterisk and using chan_dongle to provide me with an inbound GSM trunk as well as a couple of DID SIP trunks with local numbers. I would like to be able to have the following call-flow:

  • Person ring the GSM mobile number, get's a voice prompt to state they should wait.
  • I call one of the SIP trunk numbers registered on the PBX as an inbound route.
  • The PBX joins the waiting call to the newly established call, so I can now speak to the person who called me.

At some point I would like to add SMS to the mix to send me a message when someone is waiting, but this is phase 2. Can this be done?

Many thanks.

justacodemonkey
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1 word... meetme. It sounds like what you want is a 2-person conference. With meet-me, you can play a message of your choice... and when the "admin" user connects, the "conference" starts.

Keep in mind that this is not very efficient... but it should work without trouble.

TheCompWiz
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  • Yes, but this has a downside that to have an admin PIN but no user PIN, the user gets prompted for a PIN still. Any way around this? – justacodemonkey Sep 18 '14 at 18:37
  • I don't quite understand the issue. If you don't want prompts for a pin... then make the conference pinless. If you do want an admin user... the system needs some way to identify the user as an admin... so you will need a pin. – TheCompWiz Sep 30 '14 at 22:30
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Alternatively, you could always park the call and then setup an extension to automatically answer a parked call. This could get a bit more tricky if you have multiple calls coming in, and need to answer a specific one. (You may not know where it is parked) For a single line, you can simply specify the PARKINGEXTEN and then on the context you want to join the two calls... just dial that local exten you defined.

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