Hello,
more and more operators in Europe offer music instead of ring tunes.
E.g. instead of the 400 Hz or whatever tunes, the caller will hear J-Lo,
or Mozart.... Currently I will have to answer the line to do that. Is
there a way to do this with asterisk?
Regards,
Marc
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Marc Storck wrote:> more and more operators in Europe offer music instead of ring tunes. > E.g. instead of the 400 Hz or whatever tunes, the caller will hear J-Lo, > or Mozart.... Currently I will have to answer the line to do that. Is > there a way to do this with asterisk?See the help for dial: 'm' -- provide hold music to the calling party until answered. Peter
I'm guessing he wants to do it the other way around, i.e. the external calling party hears music, not the internal calling party making an external call. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Svensson [mailto:psvasterisk@psv.nu] Sent: 28 December 2004 21:53 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Music instead of Tunes On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Marc Storck wrote:> more and more operators in Europe offer music instead of ring tunes. > E.g. instead of the 400 Hz or whatever tunes, the caller will hear J-Lo, > or Mozart.... Currently I will have to answer the line to do that. Is > there a way to do this with asterisk?See the help for dial: 'm' -- provide hold music to the calling party until answered. Peter _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users The information contained in this email is intended for the personal and confidential use of the addressee only. It may also be privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient then you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, distribution or copying of this document is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify Brendata immediately on: +44 (0)1268 466100, or email 'technical@brendata.co.uk' Brendata (UK) Ltd Nevendon Hall, Nevendon Road, Basildon, Essex. SS13 1BX UK Registered Office as above. Registered in England No. 2764339 See our current vacancies at www.brendata.co.uk
The difference is that you'd have to answer the call, my guess is that it can't be done (by a Joe Average like ourselves), otherwise we'd provide useful information to callers at no charge..... -----Original Message----- From: Peter Svensson [mailto:psvasterisk@psv.nu] Sent: 29 December 2004 11:49 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Music instead of Tunes On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Steve Hanselman wrote:> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Marc Storck wrote: > > > > > more and more operators in Europe offer music instead of ring tunes. > > > E.g. instead of the 400 Hz or whatever tunes, the caller will hearJ-Lo,> > > or Mozart.... Currently I will have to answer the line to do that. Is > > > there a way to do this with asterisk? > > > > See the help for dial: > > 'm' -- provide hold music to the calling party until answered. > > I'm guessing he wants to do it the other way around, i.e. the external > calling party hears music, not the internal calling party making anexternal> call.Are the two cases different in any way? The external call comes in, goes to a context which eventually leads to a Dial(...) calling the internal user. That Dial call provides music to the external caller while the internal call is in progress. Asterisk has no concept of external or internal callers, only channles and contexts. Peter _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users The information contained in this email is intended for the personal and confidential use of the addressee only. It may also be privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient then you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, distribution or copying of this document is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify Brendata immediately on: +44 (0)1268 466100, or email 'technical@brendata.co.uk' Brendata (UK) Ltd Nevendon Hall, Nevendon Road, Basildon, Essex. SS13 1BX UK Registered Office as above. Registered in England No. 2764339 See our current vacancies at www.brendata.co.uk
So we could provide caller position announcements without the callers actually incurring charges? Has anybody tried this (in the UK)? -----Original Message----- From: Peter Svensson [mailto:psvasterisk@psv.nu] Sent: 29 December 2004 14:36 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Music instead of Tunes On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Steve Hanselman wrote:> > Are the two cases different in any way? The external call comes in, goes> > to a context which eventually leads to a Dial(...) calling the internal > > user. That Dial call provides music to the external caller while the > > internal call is in progress.> The difference is that you'd have to answer the call, my guess is that it > can't be done (by a Joe Average like ourselves), otherwise we'd provide > useful information to callers at no charge.....For pots lines this is true. For isdn lines there is no need to answer prior to sending data. The reverse path (from the called party towards the calling party) is opened when (this is form memory, it may be another IE) PROGRESS is transmitted. You can use Playback and a host of other connads on an unanswered line. Some of these will automatically answer the line unless given an option not to. Peter _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users The information contained in this email is intended for the personal and confidential use of the addressee only. It may also be privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient then you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, distribution or copying of this document is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify Brendata immediately on: +44 (0)1268 466100, or email 'technical@brendata.co.uk' Brendata (UK) Ltd Nevendon Hall, Nevendon Road, Basildon, Essex. SS13 1BX UK Registered Office as above. Registered in England No. 2764339 See our current vacancies at www.brendata.co.uk
Thinking about it we may well be able to do this in the UK as one of the complaints I get about Asterisk is that our ring tone has changed to external callers, (the zone is set correctly for zaptel, but it's different from the normal ring tone), so the tones must be coming from the TE405, not just generated as a result of the accept (unless some data in the accept signifies the tones to generate?) -----Original Message----- From: Paul Crick [mailto:web-asterisk-users@ivrl.com] Sent: 29 December 2004 18:32 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Music instead of Tunes> So we could provide caller position announcements > without the callers actually incurring charges? > Has anybody tried this (in the UK)?Maybe.. but probably not.. In the UK (and most European countries), the ACCEPT message triggers generation of ringback tone at the calling party's exchange (central office). This is as opposed to the North American way of doing things where the ACCEPT message opens up a one way speech path from the called party to the calling party (originally for providing inband call progress tones I believe). Also, there's a timer on how long you can be in that state without issuing an ANSWER and thus tripping answer supervision/billing commencement. I think technically it IS possible to get UK kit to work in the US fashion, but you have to talk to a switch tech that knows what he's doing, and of course you may get bitten with the "Yeah, it's doable, but we don't have that software feature pack installed on our switch" line. Paul _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users The information contained in this email is intended for the personal and confidential use of the addressee only. It may also be privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient then you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, distribution or copying of this document is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify Brendata immediately on: +44 (0)1268 466100, or email 'technical@brendata.co.uk' Brendata (UK) Ltd Nevendon Hall, Nevendon Road, Basildon, Essex. SS13 1BX UK Registered Office as above. Registered in England No. 2764339 See our current vacancies at www.brendata.co.uk
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Steve Hanselman wrote:> So we could provide caller position announcements without the callers > actually incurring charges?I doubt it. There is usually a limit on how long a call is allowed to remain in the ALERTING state by the pstn providers. 2-3 minutes are common limits, then the call will be released. Hwever, you can use it for spiffy personalized busy/unavailable messages, for error messages (that number is no lnger available) etc. Works nicely and incurs n charge. Peter