Had the same issue time ago, but Eric shed good light on it, have a look at:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2006-November/172079.html Summary: sorry, no nice work around. Alyed ---------------------------------------- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from digium-69-16-138-164.phx1.puregig.net [69.16.138.164] by maila11.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:54:53 -0700 Received: from digium-69-16-138-164.phx1.puregig.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.digium.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6122FC4DD; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:35:23 -0700 (MST) Hello Asteriskers, :-) We're trying to set up an outbound notification calling for system alerts with Asterisk 1.4.0. We generate a call file in /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing and the outbound call is originated through Zap/1 (Sangoma A200D to a Canadian POTS line). The problem is that Asterisk does not wait for the other side to answer before it starts playing the message. So the person called answers the phone after the second or third ring and only hears the tail end of the message and the "goodbye". Ideally, we want to deliver the message immediately after the person answers, or if an answering machine picks up, right after the "beep". Any suggestions? (1) The call file generator script (works ok): #!/bin/sh TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/tmp.XXXXXXX` || exit 1 echo "TMPFILE = $TMPFILE" cat < $TMPFILE Channel: Zap/g1/phone_number_here Callerid: SYSTEM MaxRetries: 2 RetryTime: 60 WaitTime: 30 Context: dialout Extension: s Priority: 1 EOT mv -v $TMPFILE /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing (2) The dialout context in extensions.conf (problem - starts playback before call is answered) [dialout] exten => s,1,NoOp(Dialout) exten => s,n,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=5) exten => s,n,Set(TIMEOUT(response)=8) exten => s,n,Set(MACHINE=0) exten => s,n,Answer exten => s,n,BackgroundDetect(silence/5,1000,50) exten => s,n,NoOp(Ans Machine detected) exten => s,n,Set(MACHINE=1) exten => s,n,BackgroundDetect(silence/30,1000,50,30050) exten => s,n,NoOp(Ans Machine Message Too Long) exten => s,n,Hangup exten => talk,1,GotoIf($[${MACHINE}=1]?machine:human) exten => talk,2(machine),Goto(dialout-machine,s,1) exten => talk,3(human),Goto(dialout-human,s,1) [dialout-machine] exten => s,1,NoOp(Dialout to Ans Machine) exten => s,n,Playback(/tmp/asterisk-recording) exten => s,n,Wait(1) ; we'd like to do something to wait for the "beep" here... exten => s,n,Playback(vm-goodbye) exten => s,n,Hangup [dialout-human] exten => s,1,NoOp(Dialout to Human) exten => s,n,Playback(/tmp/asterisk-recording) exten => s,n,Wait(1) exten => s,n,Playback(vm-goodbye) exten => s,n,Hangup (3) *CLI> -- Attempting call on Zap/1/1234567 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 (Retry 1) > Channel Zap/1-1 was answered. -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1] NoOp("Zap/1-1", "Dialout") in new stack -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2] Set("Zap/1-1", "TIMEOUT(digit)=5") in new stack -- Digit timeout set to 5 -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3] Set("Zap/1-1", "TIMEOUT(response)=8") in new stack -- Response timeout set to 8 -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4] Set("Zap/1-1", "MACHINE=0") in new stack -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5] Answer("Zap/1-1", "") in new stack (Problem: Asterisk does not wait until the call is answered on the far end!) -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:6] BackgroundDetect("Zap/1-1", "silence/5|1000|50") in new stack -- Playing 'silence/5' (language 'en') -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1] GotoIf("Zap/1-1", "0?machine:human") in new stack -- Goto (dialout,talk,3) -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3] Goto("Zap/1-1", "dialout-human|s|1") in new stack -- Goto (dialout-human,s,1) -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1] NoOp("Zap/1-1", "Dialout to Human") in new stack -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2] Playback("Zap/1-1","/tmp/asterisk-recording") in new stack -- Playing '/tmp/asterisk-recording' (language 'en') -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3] Wait("Zap/1-1", "1") in new stack -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4] Playback("Zap/1-1", "vm-goodbye") in new stack -- Playing 'vm-goodbye' (language 'en') -- Executing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5] Hangup("Zap/1-1", "") in new stack == Spawn extension (dialout-human, s, 5) exited non-zero on 'Zap/1-1' -- Hungup 'Zap/1-1' [Feb 8 13:29:37] NOTICE[32512]: pbx_spool.c:351 attempt_thread: Call completed to Zap/1/1234567 Thanks for any ideas on this! Alvin _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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