[asterisk-users] How to send DTMF down a channel

Moises Silva moises.silva at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 17:52:34 MST 2006


Frank. PlayDTMF and SendDTMF is the same as pressing keys at the
phone. Im not understanding well, can you please explain a practical
scenario of how do you expect it to work, and how actually works? :)
Thanks

Regards

On 9/14/06, Frank Church <voipfc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> How do you specify the channel the SendDTMF is sent on, as it has to
> be variable? I am able to use PlayDTMF  to send tones using the
> manager interface - the tones come up okay but it doesn't work.
>
> My problem comes from a working callback script that I am trying to
> adapt to web/SMS callback.
>
> The script is unchanged only that in the web/sms callback the
> destination number is passed in the call file variables to allow it be
> dialled after the callback is answered rather than being obtained via
> DTMF.
>
> The destination call is made alright, but the called party only gets
> dead air after the call is answered. It seems that the fact of
> pressing the DTMF keys activates the sound channel in way that the
> direct call back does not, which is why I am going through all these
> hoops. I just hoped that sending some DTMF tones programmatically
> would simulate the actual key presses.
>
> Do you have any ideas of what the problem might be?
>
>
>
> On 9/14/06, Moises Silva <moises.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+SendDTMF
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > On 9/14/06, Frank Church <voipfc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > How can DTMF  be sent down a channel?
> > >
> > > I am thinking of method where say a channel id can be grabbed from
> > > Asterisk Manager events and a DTMF signal sent down that channel,
> > > through AGI, Asterisk Manager Interface or whatever?
> > >
> > > Is it possible to have a command in extensions.conf which can take
> > > both the channel and the dtmf numbers as parameters and send the DTMF
> > > signals?
> > >
> > > Frank Church
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