[Asterisk-Users] How to generate "ringing tone" to a calling party.

[Daniel]

>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 12:05, Chad Scott wrote:
>> On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Eric Wieling wrote:
>> 
>> > Joe Greco wrote:
>> >>> Who to generate "ring tone" to a calling party when the call is 
>> >>> passed
>> >>> to an extension.
>> >>>
>> >>> The asterisk answers correctly, plays welcome message and ring an
>> >>> extension, but the caller does not here the rings.
>> >> Did you tell Asterisk to indicate ringing?
>> >
>> > Asterisk will ALWAYS indicate ringing if it can.
>> >
>> > The "r" option to Dial, Playtones, and Ringing are all 
>> > hacks/workarounds for when Asterisk cannot indicate ringing to the 
>> > calling party. You should diagnose and fix the real problem, rather 
>> > than try hiding the issue.
>> > 
>> I thought Asterisk would indicate ringing on the PRI if it hadn't 
>> answered it yet. If you answer the PRI and then Dial() don't you get 
>> silence?
>> 
>> Since he says he's played a welcome message, I'd think the line has 
>> been answered and therefore he has to indicate ringing to the dialing 
>> party with ",r".
>> 
>> I might be wrong, though.
>> 
>
>You *can* play a welcome message without >answering the line, however,
>this doesn't always work. eg, I tried this >config on my PRI in Australia
>(Telstra) and:
>
>a) Calling from a standard analog line I got my >welcome message as
>expected
>b) Calling from a mobile (Optus), I heard >silence until the call was
>answered.

>From the point of view of Telcos, situation "a" is not "as expected". If
this occurs you could transmit a message without paying for the call. Of
course it will be one-way but it will be useful. Imagine, you should set a
short message (for about 1 minute) informing everything you want!

Daniel

>If this worked properly (ie, to all phones) then >it would be very useful,
>however, since it doesn't always work, then I >can't use it in my
situation.
>
>If anyone has comments/suggestions on how to >make it work, then I would
>appreciate that.
>
>Regards,
>Adam

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