Help with custom destinations - Automatically forward incoming calls to another server

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Sorry, I’ve already Googled my brains out :slight_smile:

Using Trixbox version 2.8.04 -

I’ve held off asking for help up to this point so it would force me to learn FreePBX on my own, but I’m 2/3rd along on my test project and have hit an impasse.

I’ve managed to install and configure two TrixBox servers together within the same network & same LAN. Server A has a SIP account <200>. Server B has a SIP account <400> and an analog phone line attached. There is a working IAX2 trunk between the two servers. Server B can call server A both through SIP as well as using an analog phone and vice versa for Server A. I am a NOOB, so this took a LOT of effort up to this point, but I learned a lot on the journey.

The next step in my project is to automatically forward incoming analog calls from server B to server A. The SIP account <200> on server A will work for now, but it will forward to an analog extension in the future.

I found that in order to automatically transfer an incoming call to another server, I had to create an extension in “Custom Destinations”. I believe this was called “Misc Destinations” in the past. I’ve been Googling this module for a couple of days now and I really haven’t found anything that helps. Setting up an extension is probably quite easy for an experience user, but I’m still a long way off. Unfortunately, this module is still quite new and it sounds like it may also be a little buggy. The info that “Custom Destination” prompts is:

Custom Destination:{empty box}; this appears to be where you enter the extension.
Desintation Quick Pick: {drop down box}; Nothing to select at this point.
Description: {self explanitory}
Notes: {Also self explanitory}

Please let me know if I can provide any other details. Like I said before, I’m still very inexperienced but will do my best to provide anything that may help.

Thanks,

Brian

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The trixbox beta that’s out has FreePBX 2.8 in it that allows you to set a trunk as a destination of an inbound route.

You can also create a custom extension with the dial string as the following syntax:

/channel_technology/peer_name/digits_to_send

IE: to call 5551212 on trunk (peer) named serverb

/sip/serverb/5551212

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Thanks for the quick reply Skyking. I’ve read many of your offerings in the past and you’ve been a great help. I’ll try suggestion in the morning. It’s something I’ve yet to try, so it should be interesting :slight_smile:

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