asterisk users - Sep 2011 - No subject

hasn't been answered already). Not all channels support playing messages
while still on hook.

Is it because the channel is not supported?


Regards,
Zohair Raza

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Hi
All,=A0<div><br></div><div>I want to play a file in agi
but dont want to answer the
call</div><div><br></div><div>I am dialing through
sip phone and running asterisk
1.8.6,</div><div><br></div><div>I tried following
with no luck</div>

<div><div><br></div><div>$agi-&gt;exec(&quot;Progress&quot;);</div><div>$agi-&gt;exec(&quot;Playback
$filetoplay,noanswer&quot;);</div></div><div>$agi-&gt;hangup();</div><div><br></div><div>When
I dial I can&#39;t hear the audio but if I answer the call or remove
noanswer argument I can hear the audio.</div>

<div><br></div><div>phpAGI&#39;s stream_file
didn&#39;t help
either.=A0</div><div><br></div><div>I ended up
with ResetCDR() before hangup to reset billsec, duration and disposition but
don&#39;t want to do it this way.</div>

<div><br></div><div>What could be the
problem?</div><div><br></div><div>From
Voip-info.org :</div><div><strong
style=3D"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">noanswer</strong><span
style=3D"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">:
Play the sound file, but don&#39;t answer the channel first (if
hasn&#39;t been answered already). Not all channels support playing messages
while still on hook.</span><br
style=3D"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

</div><div><br></div><div>Is it because the
channel is not
supported?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><div
dir=3D"ltr">Zohair
Raza<div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
</div></div>

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