Asterisk Tips/Fixes/Features by John Johnson These are various Asterisk how-to items I have found/developed over the last few years. Feel free to use or share them, I look forward to adding more as I am able to compile them into a share-able format from my own notes.    “Experience is what you don’t get until just after you needed it.” Home One-Touch Voicemail With this feature added to your Asterisk server, the voicemail password prompt will be skipped when dialing *97 directly from the extension. A password is still required when accessing a voicemail account remotely via *98. Users like this feature, and it is particularly convenient in the Hospitality industry for hotel/motel room phones. By John Johnson 8/31/2012 In /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf add the following at the bottom of the file with at least one blank line separating it from the preceding lines: [one-touch-vm] exten => *97,1,Answer exten => *97,n,Wait(1) exten => *97,n,Macro(user-callerid,) exten => *97,n,Macro(get-vmcontext,${AMPUSER}) exten => *97,n,VoiceMailMain(${AMPUSER}@${VMCONTEXT},s) exten => *97,n,Hangup While still editing /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf    find the existing “from-internal-custom” context (probably toward the top of the file) it will generally look like this: [from-internal-custom]                                        exten => 1234,1,Playback(demo-congrats)               ; extensions can dial 1234 exten => 1234,2,Hangup() exten => h,1,Hangup() include => agentlogin include => conferences include => calendar-event include => weather-wakeup And add this line to the bottom of it making sure to leave at least one blank line separating your addition and the next entries in the file: include => one-touch-vm This adds the new custom context to the dialplan. Save the changes you have made to /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf   and reload the Asterisk configuration (you can do that from the Asterisk CLI with a simple “reload” command and not even drop a call). The feature is now enabled! Home