[Asterisk-Users] Outgoing Ringback Indications IAX vs. SIP

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

What happens if you remove the "r" option?  "r" is almost NEVER useful.

Steve Feinstein wrote:
> I've been pulling my hair out over this one trying to understand it.
> 
> If you have a very simple extension:
> 
> exten => 1,n,Dial(IAX2/Steve|24|r)
> 
> Everything I've seen says this should tell the IAX phone (our own 
> iaxclient based one) to make a ringing sound, or asterisk should make 
> the ringback indication itself if it determines that the channel can't 
> do it for itself.
> 
> But you can dial this extension all day and you never hear a ringback 
> indication.  Dial it from a SIP softphone and you do.  If you change the 
> default country in the indications.conf, the SIP phone will change the 
> way the ring sounds.  IAX, still nothing.
> 
> You can use PlayTones(ring) in the dialplan before the Dial(), and it 
> seems to behave ok.  Playing the appropriate ring indication until the 
> call is answered.  But it seems like the behavior is inconsistent with 
> IAX vs. SIP.  Is this by design?
> 
> All the IAX soft phones I've tried are based on the same iaxclient libs, 
> so it's hard to know if it's the phone or asterisk that's not behaving 
> right.  Has anyone used an iax hard phone, some other IAX 
> device/software, and does it exhibit the same behavior?  Or is this a 
> problem with the iax code not being telling asterisk that IAX phones 
> need to have their indications faked.
> 
> Any ideas about what's going on would be most gratefully appreciated.
> 
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