The Parking Lot

We suppose that, just by random chance, some part of setting up your Asterisk system should be simple and easy. It looks like the parking lot may be the qualifying component.

Begin by editing a few of the parameters in the features.conf file to define how Call Parking should work. Basically, under the "general" context, we define what extension should be used for the parking lot, what extensions to park calls on, the context for the parking lot, and the parking time. The rest of call parking parameters should be OK with their default settings.

/etc/asterisk/features.conf:

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  [general]
  parkext => 700                ; What extension to dial to park (all
                                ; parking lots)
  parkpos => 701-720            ; What extensions to park calls on
                                ; (defafult parking lot).
                                ; Both extensions need to be numeric, as
                                ; Asterisk starts from the start position
                                ; and increments by one for the next
                                ; parked call.
  context => parkedcalls        ; Which context parked calls are in (default
                                ; parking lot)
  parkingtime => 60             ; Number of seconds a call can be parked
                                ; for (default is 45 seconds)

We remove the include of the "parkedcalls" context from the extensions.conf file (shown in the Basic Asterisk Configuration section).

We include the "parkedcalls" context in the dahdi-extensions.conf local file, as shown in the Configuring Local DAHDI FXS/FXO Channels section.

That's about all there is to it. Restart Asterisk and you can transfer calls to the parking lot by dialing the Call Parking extension (e.g. 700).