Automatic Answering Machine

Asterisk Asterisk General
1

I’m wondering if its possible to connect to a asterisk machine two (or more) voice modems with a telephone line in each and make Asterisk deliver a automatic message at certain hours as an answering machine

For example
In line 1:
This is Mr. A I’m are out contact later
Line 2:
This is Mr.B I’m out contact later

And different hours for each one
For example

Answering on Line1 :Active from 1pm until 5pm
Answering on Line2: Active from 3pm until 6pm and 8pm until 10pm

Is all this possible? I found via answering machines software it is possible to be done, but is really costly, so I’m looking for alternative solution

Thanks in advance

Regards

2

Yes, Asterisk can do this but not with voice modems, to connect Asterisk to analog lines you need an fxo card like the Digium TDM410.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni
www.marcobruni.net

3

Great, considering I’ve installed the TDM410 instead of the two voice modems what shall I follow to make this happen working?

I have not found any documentation about this :frowning:

Thanks

4

What should the answering machine do when the time isn’t in the range you specified ?
Ring an extension ?
Or the answering machine will get the calls only in that time range ?

Cheers.

Marco Bruni
www.marcobruni.net

5

When time is out of the range just don’t do nothing special, stay off the anwering machine, receiving calls normally.

6

So the analog lines will be connected to Asterisk through the Digium card, when the time is in the range specified just play a message and hangup, when the time is out of the range Asterisk forward the calls to an extension, right ?

Cheers.

Marco Bruni
www.marcobruni.net

7

Yes, but how do i do this?

Any documentation about this specifically?

8

This is a simple ivr but I don’t know about any specific documentation about, I suggest you to read the good book Asterisk TFOT 2nd edition (look in the forum for the link to download) and then try to adapt the following sample (which I didn’t test):

[ivr]
exten=>s,1,Answer()
exten=>s,2,GotoIfTime(13:00-17:00,mon-sun,*,*ivr,s,5)
exten=>s,3,Dial(tech/ext)
exten=>s,4,Goto(,,6)
exten=>s,5,Playback(message)
exten=>s,6,Hangup

Also you’ll need to define a specific context for every channel of the Digium card, to send the call from different analog line to different contexts.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni
www.marcobruni.net

9

Thanks for the info.

Looks easy, like an easy script.

I will take a look.