asterisk users - Jan 2006 - MOH sourced from a sound card?

I thought this had been around before but I can't seem to find anything 
about it.

I have a customer whom prior to upgrading to Asterisk invested in one of 
those boxes that plays your company sales campaign into the MOH port on 
your key system.

For reasons of message maintenance he wants to keep the box as part of 
the new system.

Can I couple this to the sound card in the Asterisk server and then have 
it play into the MOH? If so how?

Thanks

-- 

Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
Randolph, NJ
http://www.g7ltt.com

Found this previous thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/Asterisk-users/browse_thread/thread/268e100e2
5355105/d60dea60376057b3?q=moh+from+sound+card&rnum=1#d60dea60376057b3

not sure if this works...

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] MOH sourced from a sound card?

I thought this had been around before but I can't seem to find anything 
about it.

I have a customer whom prior to upgrading to Asterisk invested in one of 
those boxes that plays your company sales campaign into the MOH port on 
your key system.

For reasons of message maintenance he wants to keep the box as part of 
the new system.

Can I couple this to the sound card in the Asterisk server and then have 
it play into the MOH? If so how?

Thanks

-- 

Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
Randolph, NJ
http://www.g7ltt.com
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Using the classic MoH, use a custom moh player (see 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+config+musiconhold.conf) 
and sox with the alsa pseudo-filetype, and output to stdout with the 
correct bitrate and samples... see the sox manpage for instructions.

Untested, but I think that should do the job for you...

Mark Phillips wrote:
> I thought this had been around before but I can't seem to find 
> anything about it.
>
> I have a customer whom prior to upgrading to Asterisk invested in one 
> of those boxes that plays your company sales campaign into the MOH 
> port on your key system.
>
> For reasons of message maintenance he wants to keep the box as part of 
> the new system.
>
> Can I couple this to the sound card in the Asterisk server and then 
> have it play into the MOH? If so how?
>
> Thanks
>

Hello,

MP> Can I couple this to the sound card in the Asterisk server and then have
MP> it play into the MOH? If so how?

Yes, it's possible. I've tried it last week.

1. Add the following into musiconhold.conf:

[default]
mode=custom
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3
application=/usr/sbin/ast-playlinein

In /var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 should be at least one mp3 file.

2. Create script file /usr/sbin/ast-playlinein and make it executable:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/arecord -q -c 1 -r 8000 --buffer-size=2048 -f S16_LE -t raw

3. Then you need to configure your mixer to turn on LINE-IN capturing.
You may plug into line-in FM-tuner or external audio player.

Don't forget to reload (should be enough) asterisk.

--
Grigoriy Puzankin