[rotary500]

I have installed asterisk@home on a machine to test it out. Unfortunately it's web based AMP interface seems to be fighting me with it's database. If I configure the system manually, then try and add something using AMP it replaces all my changes with it's database of config files. Is there anyway to update this database after config edit, so that a future attempt to use AMP doesn't erase the work? Otherwise I love the concept of asterisk@home. It's asterisk without the nervous breakdown!

[cagab]

I am a relatively new user to *@home too... but have found that with AAH/AMP you need to follow the specific architecture laid out by AAH...and realize that if you manully edit files used by AAH your edits could be lost... particularly those created by things accessed through the AMP "setup" panel. Most of what you need to do for a basic system can be done through those set up GUI panels. However, enhanced items... like follow me programming for instance... that can be programmed directly in to the *_additional.conf files will probably get lost if you do an edit from the "SETUP" panel. Unfortunately there isn't a custom context to reference in all areas of AMP at this time. If that were to come about then maybe most all of the overwriting issues could go away.

[rotary500]

No wonder I could not find a way to fix this. I was under the impression that info from the database could somehow be copied back so AMP would recognize it. What would it take to customize the contexts?

[AlexanderBell]

Make your improvements in extensions_custom.conf, and you won't have any problems. Reading a little bit of background wouldn't hurt either. :lol:

[global_dev]

how do you integrate/attach "improvements" in exten_custom.conf to exten and exten_addl? I assume it is similar to [include], but nothing I have read seems to cover this type of situation.

[AlexanderBell]

If you want to add an extension of your own with A@H, just put the dialplan in the [from-internal-custom] section of extensions_custom.conf and reload Asterisk. For example, the code below would let you dial 299 to send a call directly to voicemail for extension 200:

exten => 299,1,Answer
exten => 299,2,Wait(2)
exten => 299,3,Background(custom/vm-activated)
exten => 299,4,Wait(3)
exten => 299,5,VoiceMail(200@default)				
exten => 299,6,Hangup