[asterisk-dev] Implementing priodic announces in Dial

[Nicolas]

Hi Saúl,

Saúl Ibarra wrote:
> I'm thinking abount implementing (or at least trying to do it :) )
> priodic announces in Dial application. I actually came to the need of
> having some klnd of announcement to the caller whil he hears the
> ringing  and I can't see how to do it without touching the code.
>
> At first I tried it whith Local channels and dialplan configuration,
> later I tried with retrydial, but I can't achieve waht I really want.
> I'd like to have some application (or parameter to the Dial
> application) which reproduces a given filename each fiven seconds of
> time to the calling party.
>
> I've been through the code (I'm not an expert Asterisk programmer) and
> can't find the right place to implement this behaviour... should I do
> it on the wait_for_answer function?
>
> I'd be really happy to implement this, but first I need a little help
> to start... :)
>
>   

It is not exactly what you need, but you can use a crafted MOH file to 
do that and use the dial "m" option.

Best regards,