[Asterisk-Users] Different Dial tones for internal and external.

[Alex Lopez]

On systems even key systems it is customary to have an ‘internal’ dial tone.   Since Asterisk simply ignores the 9 and keeps the tone going it is hard to tell for some ‘new users’ if they can make a call.   My first idea was to change the generated dial tone via source. Then if the user presses 9 go to a different context where I would record about 30 seconds of the normal dial tone and then let them enter the numbers to dial.  Something it this:       [internal] exten => 123,1,macro-stdexten(blah,blah,blah) exten => 124,1,macro-stdexten(blah,blah,blah) exten => 125,1,macro-stdexten(blah,blah,blah)   exten => 9,1,Goto(trunkgroup,s,1)     [trunkgroup] exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,5 exten => s,2,ResponseTimeout,10 exten => s,3,Playback(bell-dialtone)   exten => _X.,1,Dial(Zap/g2/${EXTEN})         It Works but there HAS to be a better way!!!   Maybe instead of ignorepat a changetonepat in the context.    How do others do this or am I the first????