Inbound calls

Inbound calls allow us to route incoming calls to specific destinations or applications such as Voicemail and Conference Bridge. We will show the recipes for configuring inbound routes for analog trunks. This recipe is for routing any call from an analog trunk to any service inside our PBX. Remember that we are routing the channel because in analog trunks, there is no DID information, just Caller ID.

How to do it…

  1. Change the current context of the analog trunk to from-zaptel by editing the chan_dahdi.conf file.
  2. Go to the PBX | Tools | Asterisk File Editor menu.
  3. Search for the link named chan_dahdi.conf and click on it.
  4. Search for the line or trunk that you want to assign a DID to and change the current context to from-zaptel.
  5. Click on ...

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