Hello. I have a setup where console/dsp is connected to an overhead PA system, and the extension is set to auto-answer. This seems to work fine. The extension answers and sound comes out the headphones that are stand-ins for the PA amp. (I am still developing this box, it's not live yet.) But, outside of normal business hours when we are closed, I need to generate a ring on the overhead when a call comes in, so that anyone in the facility can do a call-pickup on the main extension. With the extension set for autoanswer, this is a conflict. I have logic for open vs closed hours, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to change the autoanswer configuration of console/dsp from within the dialplan. Another option would be to simply squirt a wavfile of a ring out the PA extension, but I haven't figured out how to do that in the dialplan either. Playback() seems to only send audio to an incoming call, which has not been answered yet, and isn't the party I want to send it to anyway. Is there a way to achieve this in the dialplan? Is there a way to achieve this in the dialplan... in the stock 1.2.9.1 code base? I have made modifications to apps/app_dial.c where I can pass a flag to Dial() to override the autoanswer setting on the channel. This seems to work exactly how I need it to. But, I would prefer a more mainstream method, rather than having to maintain a custom patch when asterisk's version changes. Thanks in advance, Bill