On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 12:05, Chad Scott wrote: > On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Eric Wieling wrote: > > > Joe Greco wrote: > >>> Who to generate "ring tone" to a calling party when the call is > >>> passed > >>> to an extension. > >>> > >>> The asterisk answers correctly, plays welcome message and ring an > >>> extension, but the caller does not here the rings. > >> Did you tell Asterisk to indicate ringing? > > > > Asterisk will ALWAYS indicate ringing if it can. > > > > The "r" option to Dial, Playtones, and Ringing are all > > hacks/workarounds for when Asterisk cannot indicate ringing to the > > calling party. You should diagnose and fix the real problem, rather > > than try hiding the issue. > > > I thought Asterisk would indicate ringing on the PRI if it hadn't > answered it yet. If you answer the PRI and then Dial() don't you get > silence? > > Since he says he's played a welcome message, I'd think the line has > been answered and therefore he has to indicate ringing to the dialing > party with ",r". > > I might be wrong, though. >
You *can* play a welcome message without answering the line, however, this doesn't always work. eg, I tried this config on my PRI in Australia (Telstra) and: a) Calling from a standard analog line I got my welcome message as expected b) Calling from a mobile (Optus), I heard silence until the call was answered. If this worked properly (ie, to all phones) then it would be very useful, however, since it doesn't always work, then I can't use it in my situation. If anyone has comments/suggestions on how to make it work, then I would appreciate that. Regards, Adam _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
