[Asterisk-Users] Streaming Music On Hold - Reality Check

[Douglas Garstang]

Yes, it streams forever. If you start Asterisk, run an ngrep command or other monitoring tool. You will see that as soon as you start Asterisk, it starts to receive a stream. If it didn't do this, then when someone went on hold, it would have to connect, which may take a number of seconds. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Geary [mailto:doug.geary at gearytech.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Streaming Music On Hold - Reality Check


Thanks to this thread, we got it working too... but have a question...

Once this is setup... does it stream forever, or does the stream only
start when someone goes on hold/into a queue/etc?

If it streams forever, at 24k... it looks like over 7GB/month in
bandwidth... so we're not going to want to do that if a) it streams
constantly and b) my math is correct.

Thanks,
Doug


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Garstang
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:18 PM
> To: jaugenstine at stoneeyes.com; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-
> Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Streaming Music On Hold
> 
> Thanks. I got it working. Yay.
> 
> Now, it seems that Asterisk is very fussy with the streams. A lot
don't
> work, especially when the URL ends in something.pls. Anyone know if
that's
> true? Is Asterisk's support of this still pretty limited?
> 
> Doug.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Augenstine [mailto:jaugenstine at stoneeyes.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:03 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Streaming Music On Hold
> 
> 
> Try this:
> 
> musiconhold.conf:
> 
> [stream2]
> mode=mp3
> directory=http://pubint.ic.llnwd.net/stream/pubint_wnpr
> 
> 
> extensions.conf:
> 
> exten => 1234,1,Answer
> exten => 1234,2,MusicOnHold(stream2)
> exten => 1234,3,Hangup
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:28 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > Ok, I'm tearing my hair out trying to get Asterisk moh streaming to
> work. After several hours jerking around with icecast and muse, I
tried to
> point my asterisk system directly at two streams I know work.
> >
> > This is what extensions.conf has:
> >
> > [default]
> > mode=quietmp3
> > directory=/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3
> >
> > [stream2]
> > mode=custom
> > directory=/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3-empty
> > application=http://pubint.ic.llnwd.net/stream/pubint_wnpr
> >
> > and this is how I am testing it:
> > exten => 1234,1,Answer
> > exten => 1234,2,SetMusiconHold(stream2)
> > exten => 1234,3,WaitmusiconHold(60)
> > exten => 1234,4,Hangup
> >
> > and this is the console output I get when I dial 1234:
> >
> > Asterisk Ready.
> > *CLI>     -- Executing Answer("SIP/3250072-ed28", "") in new stack
> >     -- Executing SetMusicOnHold("SIP/3250072-ed28", "stream2") in
new
> stack
> >     -- Executing WaitMusicOnHold("SIP/3250072-ed28", "60") in new
stack
> >     -- Started music on hold, class 'stream2', on channel
'SIP/3250072-
> ed28'
> >     -- Stopped music on hold on SIP/3250072-ed28
> >
> > If I replace SetMusiconHold(stream2) with SetMusiconHold(default), I
get
> the default music on hold. Running ngrep on port 80 shows me that the
> Asterisk system is not sending or receiving ANY data on port 80. What
am I
> doing wrong? Yes, it has network and DNS connectivity.
> >
> > Can't believe it's this hard!
> >
> > Doug.
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