Since when is a instant busy tone after someone hangs up on you normal?

General Help
1

Hey fellow telephony enthusiasts!

So I’m playing around with my 3rd FreePBX distro, and this time I’m using some 4-Line Analog RCA phones with an OpenVox A400E card with four FXS ports. Here’s my problem, when the other party hangs up the call before I do, I get a busy tone blaring out of my headset (or even more obnoxious, blaring out of the speakerphone). I contacted OpenVox and they say this is the normal way a call hang up is handled by asterisk. Of course I can’t ask Asterisk because they will tell me to ask in FreePBX so here I am!

From what I remember in my old age, a normal old PSTN phone line from Ma-Bell, would act this way. You are on a phone call with Joe, Joe hangs up,… on your end you hear silence for a moment, then a dial tone. Am I wrong on this? Or is the standard for you to instantaneously hear a busy signal as soon as the other caller hangs up? Can this be changed? I’d appreciate any input!

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Anything can be changed, but as soon as the other channel hangs up your card is going to tell you to hang up the phone.

FXS extensions have gone the way of the gooney bird so you would have to hack at the macro-hangupcall.

SIP phones don’t do that. A 4 line SIP phone is less than your FXS card and the phone you have and does a lot more. I think you would be happier with it.

I know the SPA ATA’s also soft hangup before returning reorder.

Bellcore standards are silence, recording (if you would like to place a call hang up and …) then off hook tone.

3

Thanks for the reply, I’m actually making this box for a friend. I personally use the Yealink T38 and I love it, but he is being a stick in the MUD about his beloved RCA analog phones.

I know FXS is basically extinct, but I’d figure someone would of made a patch that would make the ports act like MaBell(Bellcore) on hangup when they were more popular.

Hacking asterisk macros eh? Time to determine the extent of my friendship lol

4

Okay with your guidance I happened to find a macro that did exactly what I needed to do!
To anyone that may have my issue, just add “g” to your dial options and throw the following into your extensions_custom.conf

; handle hangup macro ; this macro attempts to go though and do something intelligent with the HANGUPCAUSE and DIALSTATUS [macro-handle-hangup] exten => s,1,NoOp(HANGUPCAUSE is ${HANGUPCAUSE} and DIALSTATUS is ${DIALSTATUS}) exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${HANGUPCAUSE} = 0]?s,nohc) exten => s,n,Goto(hc-${HANGUPCAUSE},1) exten => s,n(nohc),GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = ANSWER]?hc-16,1) exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = BUSY]?hc-17,1) exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = NOANSWER]?hc-19,1) exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = CONGESTION]?hc-42,1) exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = CHANUNAVAIL]?hc-44,1) exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = CANCEL]?hc-0,1) exten => s,n,Goto(hc-0,n)

exten => hc-0,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Not Defined)
exten => hc-0,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-1,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Unallocated)
exten => hc-1,n,Goto(ind-outofservice,1)
exten => hc-2,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - No Route to Transit Network)
exten => hc-2,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-3,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - No Route to Destination)
exten => hc-3,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-6,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Channel Unacceptable)
exten => hc-6,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-7,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Call Awarded Delivered)
exten => hc-7,n,Goto(ind-hangup,1)
exten => hc-16,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Normal Clearing)
exten => hc-16,n,Goto(ind-hangup,1)
exten => hc-17,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - User Busy)
exten => hc-17,n,Goto(ind-busy,1)
exten => hc-18,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - No User Response)
exten => hc-18,n,Goto(ind-hangup,1)
exten => hc-19,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - No Answer)
exten => hc-19,n,Goto(ind-hangup,1)
exten => hc-21,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Call Rejected)
exten => hc-21,n,Goto(ind-outofservice,1)
exten => hc-22,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Number Changed)
exten => hc-22,n,Goto(ind-outofservice,1)
exten => hc-27,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Destination Out-of-Order)
exten => hc-27,n,Goto(ind-outofservice,1)
exten => hc-28,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Invalid Number Format)
exten => hc-28,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-29,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Facility Rejected)
exten => hc-29,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-30,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Response to Status Enquiry)
exten => hc-30,n,Goto(ind-hangup,1)
exten => hc-31,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Normal Unspecified)
exten => hc-31,n,Goto(ind-hangup,1)
exten => hc-34,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Normal Circuit Congestion)
exten => hc-34,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-38,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Network Out-of-Order)
exten => hc-38,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-41,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Normal Temporary Failure)
exten => hc-41,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-42,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Switch Congestion)
exten => hc-42,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-43,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Access Information Discarded)
exten => hc-43,n,Goto(ind-hangup,1)
exten => hc-44,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Requested Channel Unavailable)
exten => hc-44,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-45,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Pre-Empted)
exten => hc-45,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-50,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Facility Not Subscribed)
exten => hc-50,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-52,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Outgoing Call Barred)
exten => hc-52,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-54,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Incoming Call Barred)
exten => hc-54,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-57,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Bearer Capability Not Authorized)
exten => hc-57,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-58,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Bearer Capability Not Available)
exten => hc-58,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-65,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Bearer Capability Not Implemented)
exten => hc-65,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-66,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Channel Not Implemented)
exten => hc-66,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-69,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Facility Not Implemented)
exten => hc-69,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-81,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Invalid Call Reference)
exten => hc-81,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-88,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Incompatible Destination)
exten => hc-88,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-95,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Invalid Message - Unspecified)
exten => hc-95,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-96,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Mandatory IE Missing)
exten => hc-96,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-97,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Message Type Nonexistant)
exten => hc-97,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-98,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Wrong Message)
exten => hc-98,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-99,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - IE Nonexistant)
exten => hc-99,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-100,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Invalid IE Contents)
exten => hc-100,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-101,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Wrong Call State)
exten => hc-101,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-102,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Recovery on Timer Expire)
exten => hc-102,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-103,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Mandatory IE Length Error)
exten => hc-103,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-111,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Protocol Error)
exten => hc-111,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)
exten => hc-127,1,NoOp(${HANGUPCAUSE} - Internetworking)
exten => hc-127,n,Goto(ind-congestion,1)

exten => ind-hangup,1,Wait(30)
exten => ind-hangup,n,Hangup
exten => ind-busy,1,Busy
exten => ind-congestion,1,Congestion
exten => ind-outofservice,1,Zapateller