asterisk users - Sep 2009 - Echo and Playtones not working on SIP after upgrade

Hello list

I had the following echo-test extension on my Asterisk 1.2 setup.

exten => 1003,1,Wait(1)
exten => 1003,n,Playtones(!1050/1000)
exten => 1003,n,Wait(1)
exten => 1003,n,StopPlaytones
exten => 1003,n,Echo
exten => 1003,n,Hangup

After migrating my testing server to Asterisk 1.4, and a minor
extensions.conf update, everything works just fine. Except for the
Playtones and the Echo applications on SIP channels.

Over IAX2, both Echo and Playtones works fine on this same extension and
system!

I googled and tried several things, but nothing seems to work. Basically
the log shows it is working, there are no errors or warnings, but there
is no sound at all. No beeps, no Echo.

Calls, voicemail, moh, and everything else we are using works just fine.

We are using Asterisk 1.4.21.2~dfsg-3 (on debian stable), SIP channels
with both grandstream and soft phones. Everything on the same network
segment.

Codec does not seem to affect this behavior (tried them all)

Any clues? Thanks!

-- 
Iv?n Stepaniuk
Alba Fot?nica S.L.

On Monday 07 September 2009 09:36:53 Ivan Stepaniuk
wrote:
> I had the following echo-test extension on my Asterisk 1.2 setup.
>
> exten => 1003,1,Wait(1)
> exten => 1003,n,Playtones(!1050/1000)
> exten => 1003,n,Wait(1)
> exten => 1003,n,StopPlaytones
> exten => 1003,n,Echo
> exten => 1003,n,Hangup
>
> After migrating my testing server to Asterisk 1.4, and a minor
> extensions.conf update, everything works just fine. Except for the
> Playtones and the Echo applications on SIP channels.
Try adding an Answer() in there, before the first Playtones.

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Tilghman Lesher
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Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Monday 07 September 2009 09:36:53 Ivan Stepaniuk wrote:
>> I had the following echo-test extension on my Asterisk 1.2 setup.
>>
>> exten => 1003,1,Wait(1)
>> exten => 1003,n,Playtones(!1050/1000)
>> exten => 1003,n,Wait(1)
>> exten => 1003,n,StopPlaytones
>> exten => 1003,n,Echo
>> exten => 1003,n,Hangup
>>
>> After migrating my testing server to Asterisk 1.4, and a minor
>> extensions.conf update, everything works just fine. Except for the
>> Playtones and the Echo applications on SIP channels.
> 
> Try adding an Answer() in there, before the first Playtones.
That made the trick, thank you very much.

I wonder why does it work on IAX2 channels but not on SIP channels
without the Answer command. Anyway, I guess that answering the channel
first is the right thing to do.

-- 
Iv?n Stepaniuk