Asterisk and Call Transfer

[Karl]

After hearing episode 101 I tried the doing a call transfer on my asterisk system using the Xten Lite softphone. But the lite version has call transfer disabled.

But I found you can get around this. In the extentions.conf file change the extention of the phone to read something like:

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exten => 5002,1,Dial(SIP/5002|30|t)

The t option allows you to do a call Transfer using #. So during a call press # dial the extention to be transferred to then press # again.

Here's a page with some more dial command options:
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php ... k+cmd+Dial

Edit:
My bad. You have to apply that to your outgoing line in the extentions file.

For example:

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exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX, 1, dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30|T)

"T" is supposed to mean "Allow the calling user to transfer the call".

[dann]

For example:

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exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX, 1, dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30|T)

"T" is supposed to mean "Allow the calling user to transfer the call".

Tried this, it's not working though.

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Actually, I did get it working. Only with asterisk @home 1.1 it only works with incoming calls, not outbound calls. Now the question is, is this feature important enough to move to the latest version?

[Karl]

Try it with the options "tT". I keep getting mixed up with those.

According to the options

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t: Allow the called user to transfer the call
T: Allow the calling user to transfer the call

so that line would read

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exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX, 1, dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30|Tt)

I'm not sure how that would apply to asterisk @ home. I set those in the extentions.conf file. Maybe you can edit it directly.