Am 06. Aug, 2007 schwätzte Mike Schwartz so: moin moin, > On 8/4/07, der.hans wrote: >> >> moin moin, >> >> trying to get Asterisk setup. I've got a card with a POTS line plugged >> in. >> >> I can get it to pick up almost immediated by setting s,1 to Answer, but I >> want it to delay a few rings and give a chance to answer the phone. >> exten => s,1,Answer(50) > > > shouldn't that be more like > s,1,Answer(20000)? Yes, you are correct. With further testing I'm finding that it does indeed wait 20 seconds when I set Answer(20000), but the phone stops ringing a couple of seconds in after a ring and a half. It stops ringing for the person calling and the phone stops ringing. If you stay on the phone listening to dead air Asterisk will eventually pick up after the timeout. I want the phone to continue ringing until Asterisk picks it up. On the other side of the call Asterisk doesn't disconnect, so I set an absolute timeout before kicking off to voice mail. Asterisk will disconnect when you push # in voicemail, but not for a hangup. Got some 3 hour voice mails over the weekend :(. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # ... All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.