[asterisk-users] False ring problem

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

WRONG!  WRONG!  WRONG!

The "r" option to Dial provides a "fake ringback".  This option tells 
Asterisk, no matter what sound it should be providing to the caller 
(busy, congestion, ringback, "the number you called is disconnected", 
etc), it should unconditionally provide a ringing tone to the caller.

Asterisk will provide ringing tone to the caller by default.  Let me 
repeat that:  Asterisk will provide a ringing tone to the caller by 
default.  The "r" option is an OVERRIDE.

If you do not get a ringing tone then there is something wrong.  If you 
mask the issue by using the "r" option you will have trouble finding the 
real cause of the problem.

Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> Do you have 'r' in ur dial command ? 'r' makes asterisk produce ring .
> 
> On 30/05/07, Rizwan Hisham <rizwanhasham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> when a user dials any number, asterisk automatically generates ringing 
>> which
>> caller can hear, and after 2 - 3 rings asterisk detects that the 
>> called user
>> is busy, then caller hears busy tone. for example user hears---
>> tone--tone--tobeep beep beep ---Can i some how eliminate the false 
>> ringing
>> at the start so that user hears only beep beep beep if the called user is
>> busy. I have used the R and r options in Dial application but they dont
>> work.