>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.
>From the point of view of Telcos, situation "a" is not "as expected". If this occurs you could transmit a message without paying for the call. Of course it will be one-way but it will be useful. Imagine, you should set a short message (for about 1 minute) informing everything you want! Daniel >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 _______________________________________________ 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
