[Asterisk-Users] Line-in as MOH source

[Rod Bacon]

Did you ever work this out?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Niksa Baldun" <niksa.baldun at lumiss.hr>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 1:07 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Line-in as MOH source


> Hello,
> 
> Most traditional PBX-es have the ability to use external audio source
> (e.g. radio tuner) for music on hold. This is also useful because you
> can let your users listen to radio by dialing some extension.
> 
> I wanted to achieve the same on asterisk, and chan_alsa seemed the
> logical choice. I installed ALSA drivers, connected the radio to line-in
> and added the folowing to extensions.conf:
> 
> exten => *55,1,Dial(Console/Line)
> 
> And indeed, now I could listen to radio by dialing *55. There are some
> problems, however:
> 
> 1. Asterisk treats this as a normal call, so only one user can listen at
> a time. Is there a way to let several user listen simultaneously?
> 2. As this is a low priority call, it should be dropped when incoming
> call is sent to a channel which dialed it. I guess SoftHangup could be
> used, but I don't know how to determine which channel to hangup.
> 3. I have no idea how to use this as a source for music on hold.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Niksa
> 
>