Help setting caller-id

[phoneguy01]

Hi,
I believe this can be done with the from-internal statement and specifying what extensions I'm interested in...but here's what I want to do...

If a certain group of extensions (maybe I note them individually in one line or create multiple entries, one for each different ext?) calls outside, I'd like to tell asterisk to set the caller-d number for those outbound calls to (insert whatever caller-id I want here). Now, if another group of extensions calls outside, I'd like to specify a different number to use as the caller-id number. I believe this is possible but I'm not an asterisk expert so you tell me . Basically, I've got two groups of people (maybe 10 in one group and 7 or so people in another group) that are calling out and each group needs to use their own special caller-id number so the caller will call back to the correct number (group of people). I need to specify several extensions for each group.

Know what I mean? can you provide a good example of the code for that???

 

[busster]

The answer is maybe.

Will your phone carrier allow you to customize the caller-id?

I have seen some carriers which not allow.

If they do allow, then yes, you can change each extension can have a unique caller-id, they can even have a unique internal caller-id.

 

[phoneguy01]

Yes, they allow it. Do you have an example of the proper code I'd use?

 

[busster]

We use TrixboxCE. If you are familiar, the GUI is tied to Mysql which is then tied to Asterisk.

I will look in code to see, but the GUI gives you the Caller-id field to fill in.

 

[busster]

in extensions.conf

exten => 100,4,Set(CALLERID(all) = John <2145551212>)

 

[phoneguy01]

I'll check that out. I was expecting it might be a couple lines. One with from-internal used to ID the ext's in question and another line with the set calleid stuff.