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Can Ring Group ring an inbound route (local SIP URI)?

I was going to build an "advanced" ring group where each call "leg" is guarded by its own timing rules. It requires the ring group to send a call to few inbound routes which implement the timing restrictions. The only way I know to achieve that is to create SIP extensions that would dial local SIP URI of the inbound route - all this for each and every call leg.
I tried, and realized that it becomes so awkward, complicate, hard to maintain, and simply fragile...
Is there any simper (less elements involved) way to make ring groups to ring local inbound routes directly, just as it's possible from Digital Receptionist?

RE: Can Ring Group ring an inbound route (local SIP URI)?

Let me understand what you plan to achieve by this. Can you describe such a call scenario?

The call arriving on this "Advanced" Ring Group, where is it going to originate from? A DID, a SIP URI outside PBXes?

RE: Can Ring Group ring an inbound route (local SIP URI)?

It’s ring-all Ring Group. Let’s say I’m forking incoming call to five extensions.
However, extension A should be called only at regular hours, extensions B must not ring during lunch, extension C shouldn’t ring during my daily meeting between 10 and 11am. D is on-call phone should ring only 2 days a week.

To do so I have to fork the call to incoming routes URIs – which is possible from Digital Receptionist, but not from Ring Groups.

RE: Can Ring Group ring an inbound route (local SIP URI)?

You can fork to multiple SIP URIs by using the &/SIP-syntax in SIP URIs. So if you put A@X&SIP/B@Y into an inbound route it will call the two SIP URIs A@X and B@Y simultaneously like in a ringall group.

RE: Can Ring Group ring an inbound route (local SIP URI)?

That's very interesting option.

But what happens on no answer? I guess nothing - whichever voice mail answers first. And obviously no way to set ring time.
Sigh...
i-p-tel, is there any chance you consider allowing using SIP URIs in real Ring Groups?