asterisk users - May 2016 - Switching between Music on Hold streams. [13.8.2]

I'd like multiple people to be able to dial in and listen to various
live radio streams.

I was told that the correct resource-friendly way would be to setup a
MoH class, and then select that from the dialplan.

This works well, but how do I switch between streams?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from previous similar questions a
few years ago it seems like once you've entered a MoH class, there is
no exit.

But might there be some trick involved merged or bridged calls, or
chan_spy or something, so that callers could quickly switch between 3
streams with a keypress?

Thank you!

Michael,

What you do is you dial another context and then use the G option in the dial
string. So something like this.

[radio-main]
Exten => s,1,answer
Exten => s,2,Background(play-menu)
Exten => s,3,waitexten
Exten => S,4,Goto(s,2)

Exten => 1,1,Dial(Local/CNN at play-radio)
Exten => 1,2,Goto(s,2)

Exten => 2,1,Dial(Local/NPR at play-radio)
Exten => 2,2,Goro(s,2)

[play-radio]
Exten => _[A-Z].,1,Answer
Exten => _[A-Z].,2,Musiconhold(${EXTEN})


Regards,

Dovid

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From: Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com>
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Subject: [asterisk-users] Switching between Music on Hold streams. [13.8.2]

I'd like multiple people to be able to dial in and listen to various
live radio streams.

I was told that the correct resource-friendly way would be to setup a
MoH class, and then select that from the dialplan.

This works well, but how do I switch between streams?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from previous similar questions a
few years ago it seems like once you've entered a MoH class, there is
no exit.

But might there be some trick involved merged or bridged calls, or
chan_spy or something, so that callers could quickly switch between 3
streams with a keypress?

Thank you!

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Hi there;

I didn't see any "G" option in the example above, and the usage
for
the option parameters is entirely undocumented at
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+Application_Dial

The G options are as below
G - If the call is answered, transfer the calling party to the
specified priority and the called party to the specified priority plus
one.
context
exten
priority

I think I have something almost there now, with the following:

[streamdemo]
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,BackGround(menu)
exten => s,3,WaitExten
exten => s,4,Goto(s,2)
exten =>
_[2,3,4,5],1,Dial(Local/${EXTEN}@play-radio,,G(play-radio^${EXTEN}^2))
exten => _[2,3,4,5],2,Goto(s,2)

[play-radio]
Exten => _[2,3,4,5],1,Answer
exten => _[2,3,4,5],2,MusicOnHold(${CALLERID(name)}${EXTEN})
exten => _[2,3,4,5],3,Set(CHANNEL(language)=en_GB)
exten => _[2,3,4,5],4,BackGround(menu)
exten => _[2,3,4,5],5,WaitExten
exten => _[X,t,i],1,Goto(streamdemo,s,2)

However, it's like the play-radio channel can't "hear" the
dtmf.

Here's the output -  once that MoH starts playing, no amount of button
pushing works. All I'm left with is a channel which isn't closed
properly when the phone is hung up.

By the way, it looks like that "G" option IS working because the MoH
starts, then the "called party" plays back an example piece of
"menu"
audio while the MoH is playing, but seems to ignore the keypresses.

-- Executing [s at streamdemo:1] Answer("Local/s at root-00000002;2",
"") in new stack
    -- Local/s at root-00000002;1 answered PJSIP/voipfone-201-00000002
    -- Channel Local/s at root-00000002;1 joined 'simple_bridge'
basic-bridge <3ac0c9be-2817-48e7-bcd8-4318eb1f9c2b>
    -- Channel PJSIP/voipfone-201-00000002 joined 'simple_bridge'
basic-bridge <3ac0c9be-2817-48e7-bcd8-4318eb1f9c2b>
    -- Executing [s at streamdemo:2]
BackGround("Local/s at root-00000002;2", "menu") in new
stack
    -- <Local/s at root-00000002;2> Playing 'menu.alaw' (language
'en_GB')
    -- Executing [s at streamdemo:3] WaitExten("Local/s at
root-00000002;2",
"") in new stack
    -- Executing [2 at streamdemo:1] Dial("Local/s at
root-00000002;2",
"Local/2 at play-radio,,G(play-radio^2^2)") in new stack
    -- Called Local/2 at play-radio
    -- Executing [2 at play-radio:1]
Answer("Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;2", "") in new stack
    -- Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1 answered Local/s at root-00000002;2
    -- Executing [2 at play-radio:2]
MusicOnHold("Local/s at root-00000002;2", "streamdemo2") in
new stack
    -- Started music on hold, class 'streamdemo2', on channel
'Local/s at root-00000002;2'
    -- Executing [2 at play-radio:3] Set("Local/2 at
play-radio-00000003;1",
"CHANNEL(language)=en_GB") in new stack
    -- Executing [2 at play-radio:4]
BackGround("Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1", "menu") in
new stack
    -- Executing [2 at play-radio:2]
MusicOnHold("Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;2",
"streamdemo2") in new
stack
    -- Started music on hold, class 'streamdemo2', on channel
'Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;2'
    -- <Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1> Playing 'menu.alaw'
(language 'en_GB')
    -- Executing [2 at play-radio:5]
WaitExten("Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1", "") in new
stack
    -- Timeout on Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1, going to 't'
    -- Executing [t at play-radio:1]
Goto("Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1", "streamdemo,s,2")
in new stack
    -- Goto (streamdemo,s,2)
    -- Executing [s at streamdemo:2]
BackGround("Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1", "menu") in
new stack
    -- <Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1> Playing 'menu.alaw'
(language 'en_GB')
    -- Executing [s at streamdemo:3]
WaitExten("Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1", "") in new
stack
    -- Timeout on Local/2 at play-radio-00000003;1, continuing...

On 8 May 2016 at 14:56, Dovid Bender <dovid at telecurve.com>
wrote:
> Michael,
>
> What you do is you dial another context and then use the G option in the
dial string. So something like this.
>
> [radio-main]
> Exten => s,1,answer
> Exten => s,2,Background(play-menu)
> Exten => s,3,waitexten
> Exten => S,4,Goto(s,2)
>
> Exten => 1,1,Dial(Local/CNN at play-radio)
> Exten => 1,2,Goto(s,2)
>
> Exten => 2,1,Dial(Local/NPR at play-radio)
> Exten => 2,2,Goro(s,2)
>
> [play-radio]
> Exten => _[A-Z].,1,Answer
> Exten => _[A-Z].,2,Musiconhold(${EXTEN})
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dovid
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com>
> Sender: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.comDate: Sun, 8 May 2016
11:36:42
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
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> Subject: [asterisk-users] Switching between Music on Hold streams. [13.8.2]
>
> I'd like multiple people to be able to dial in and listen to various
> live radio streams.
>
> I was told that the correct resource-friendly way would be to setup a
> MoH class, and then select that from the dialplan.
>
> This works well, but how do I switch between streams?
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from previous similar questions a
> few years ago it seems like once you've entered a MoH class, there is
> no exit.
>
> But might there be some trick involved merged or bridged calls, or
> chan_spy or something, so that callers could quickly switch between 3
> streams with a keypress?
>
> Thank you!
>
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Jonathan H wrote:
> I'd like multiple people to be able to dial in and listen to various
> live radio streams.
>
> I was told that the correct resource-friendly way would be to setup a
> MoH class, and then select that from the dialplan.
>
> This works well, but how do I switch between streams?
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from previous similar questions a
> few years ago it seems like once you've entered a MoH class, there is
> no exit.
You can configure music classes with a DTMF digit that when pressed when 
listening to music on hold will cause the channel to switch to the new 
music class.

 From the musiconhold.conf sample file:

;digit=#        ; If this option is set for a class, then when callers ; 
               ; are
;               ; listening to music on hold, they can press this
;               ; digit, and
;               ; they will switch to listening to this music class.

Cheers,

-- 
Joshua Colp
Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Developer
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - US
Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org

Josh,

As he is playing different streams I think he wants to give the users the
option to select another stream.


On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:
> Jonathan H wrote:
>
>> I'd like multiple people to be able to dial in and listen to
various
>> live radio streams.
>>
>> I was told that the correct resource-friendly way would be to setup a
>> MoH class, and then select that from the dialplan.
>>
>> This works well, but how do I switch between streams?
>>
>> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from previous similar
questions a
>> few years ago it seems like once you've entered a MoH class, there
is
>> no exit.
>>
>
> You can configure music classes with a DTMF digit that when pressed when
> listening to music on hold will cause the channel to switch to the new
> music class.
>
> From the musiconhold.conf sample file:
>
> ;digit=#        ; If this option is set for a class, then when callers ;
>              ; are
> ;               ; listening to music on hold, they can press this
> ;               ; digit, and
> ;               ; they will switch to listening to this music class.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Joshua Colp
> Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Developer
> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - US
> Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org
>
>
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