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In article <CKOdnbNre5zTPJHanZ2dnUVZ8sGdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
Telephoneman <alexandergrahambell@REMOVEbigfoot.com> wrote:[color=blue]
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>"Gordon Henderson" <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> wrote in message
>news:fei313$2l17
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>> These are configurable on the BT100 web interface - to change the
>> time-out, look for the "No Key Entry timeout" (it's 4 by default), and
>> to make it present the number on each digit, look for the "Early Dial"
>> setting which is off by default. (On the advanced settings page)[/color]
>
>Thanks. I changed it but the asterisk doesn't seem to support "early dial",
>well at least not in the "off the shelf" Trixbox variant that I've got. I
>don't know enough about asterisk to delve into it so I'll probably leave
>things as they are.[/color]

Asterisk certianly does support it, but I don't know how trixbox
constructs it's dialplan - anything with a wildcard in it will really
need to wait for the phone to "finish" dialling. However, I've found it
to be more of a PITA that something that's actually useful, so I never
enable it. I also tend to set the dial time-out quite high too. The idea
is that people are used to using a "send" button on their mobile phone,
so their deskphone is going to work the same way...

Gordon

Telephoneman wrote:[color=blue]
> "alexd" <troffasky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2764691.YScz3ZyduV@ale.cx...[color=green]
>> Telephoneman wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> "alexd" <troffasky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:6639562.642WExTulK@ale.cx...
>>>> The name of this "feature" is Overlap Dialling, FYI.
>>>>
>>> Well unless definitions have changed in this new IP world I think that
>>> you're incorrect. Overlap dialling would be where you have a number such
>>> as 01757XXXXXX and the exchange can resolve a routing choice based on the
>>> 01757 and does so even though it hasn't yet received the XXXXXX that it
>>> is
>>> expecting.[/color]
>> Isn't that effectively what you're asking for?
>>[/color]
> No, not really. From the other replies to the post it's a moot point because
> it seems that generally the phone sends all the digits at once, either after
> an elapsed time, a # or by pressing a send button.
>
> I was assuming that the digits were sent one at a time, in which case I
> wanted to set the switch to recognise that after it saw a 5 it should expect
> 2 more digits then route immediately because it didn't need to wait for
> more. It's not overlap dialling because it's not waiting for any digits to
> forward.
>
>[/color]
Overlap dialling is what you want. At the moment your phone isn't
sending anything Asterisk until you either tell it to or the timer
elapses. With overlap dialling, every digit is sent to the PBX
(Asterisk in your case) and it's up to the PBX to decide when it has
enough digits to actually do something it them. You need a phone that
supports it (I've no idea if the BT101 does or not, snom phones
certainly do) and you need a PBX that can handle it. I believe support
for it does exist for Asterisk but I'm not so sure how well it works.

What happens if you type the number into the phone and then pick up the
handset?

cheers,
Paul.

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