[asterisk-dev] DTMF queuing

[John Todd]

On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:38 PM, James Lamanna wrote:

>> On Jan 26, 2009, at 8:53 PM, James Lamanna wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Is it just me, or does DTMF queuing not work properly?
>>> I'm consistently faced with the issue that users (and myself) will
>>> dial digits quickly and all I get in the logs are:
>>>
>>> end 'X' put into dtmf queue on SIP/xxxxxxxxxx
>>> etc...
>>
>>
>> What version are you talking about?  If it's not 1.4.23, please try
>> that, as there are some related fixes in that version.
>
> Sorry, I neglected to mention this is on 1.4.18.1.
> I will try and test 1.4.23 and see if things are better.
> In the meantime, I'll report my findings to see if you guys can  
> better explain
> to me what is going on.
>
> The best DTMF combination (between phone and asterisk) I have found  
> is:
>
> sip.conf - dtmfmode=info
> Phone (SPA962) - DTMF Mode = Auto
>
> This works very well for outbound SIP and Zap trunks and on both ulaw
> and g726 codecs.
> However, this does NOT work for any prompt that is internal to  
> asterisk that
> needs to detect DTMF (Voicemail, Authenticate, etc..).
> The only way for these prompts to work is to explicitly put  
> SIPDTMFMode(inband)
> in the dial plan. Of course, this breaks when the codec is g726. Why
> do these prompts not work with this setup?
> I've also noticed that when in this mode, nothing is put into the  
> dtmf log.
> Does that mean that the phone and asterisk have negotiated inband
> (though if this was the case why would it work with g726..)?
>
> Thanks.
> (please CC me directly since I'm on digest mode at the moment).


Actually, I'm a little surprised you get DTMF working at all in this  
combination.

Setting dtmfmode=info means that Asterisk will be looking for SIP INFO  
messages that contain DTMF events.  Have you watched the SIP channel  
debug during DTMF events, or set up a tshark or other interceptor to  
watch port 5060 as you send DTMF?   Perhaps you've got a few things  
mucking up the works there.  What does RFC2833 get you if you set all  
the gear to that?

Try setting everything to RFC2833 and try again.  I'd also suggest  
follow-up messages go to asterisk-users and not to this list, as this  
is not sounding particularly like a question for the -dev list where  
core Asterisk code is involved, and you'll probably get more answers  
over on -users.

JT

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