asterisk users - Sep 2011 - Set(CHANNEL(musicclass)=

In asterisk 1.4 I had:
exten => s,n,Answer()
exten => s,n,SetMusicOnHold(default)

But in 1.6 1.8 I think don't need to use: SetMusicOnHold(default) (beside it
is deprecated) as it is default.
In 1.6 and UP I think it is: Set(CHANNEL(musicclass)= 
Can somebody explain what do they mean by "CHANNEL"?

I could use just:
exten => s,n,MusicOnHold()

There is a lot of documentation on www.voip-info.org but sometimes it is not
clear which asterisk version it applies to :-/

-- 
Joseph

On 02/09/11 11:27 PM, Joseph wrote:
> In asterisk 1.4 I had:
> exten => s,n,Answer()
> exten => s,n,SetMusicOnHold(default)
>
> But in 1.6 1.8 I think don't need to use: SetMusicOnHold(default)
> (beside it is deprecated) as it is default.
> In 1.6 and UP I think it is: Set(CHANNEL(musicclass)= Can somebody
> explain what do they mean by "CHANNEL"?
CHANNEL() is a dialplan function. You're setting parameters for the 
current channel by using that function. So instead of using a dialplan 
application like you were before, you use the CHANNEL() function.

exten => s,1,NoOp()
same => n,Set(CHANNEL(musicclass)=default)
> I could use just:
> exten => s,n,MusicOnHold()
>
> There is a lot of documentation on www.voip-info.org but sometimes it is
> not clear which asterisk version it applies to :-/
(Another good reason to be reading the documentation on 
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki instead :))


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Leif Madsen
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk