[asterisk-users] interrupting MOH

[Atis Lezdins]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Brent Davidson
<brent at texascountrytitle.com> wrote:
>
>  You could also, conceivably, handle this outside of asterisk by using a
> more complex MOH stream source.  For instance, use a shoutcast client as the
> MOH source, run your own shoutcast server streaming your music and have a
> script set up to periodically interrupt the stream being served to the
> shoutcast server and inject an announcement.  (Keep in mind that this is an
> "off the top of my head" suggestion so I don't have exact details for
> implementation, but I'm sure it can be done.)

That would need one shoutcast stream per call.. not very reasonable..

Regards,
Atis

>
>  Good luck,
>  Brent
>
>
>
>  Matt Florell wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> We achieve this using an AGI script in the VICIDIAL project for our
> version of inbound queues. You start MoH then when you stream a sound
> to the channel it will stop MoH then after the sound is done you start
> MoH back up again. Probably a bit more involved than what you want,
> but it dose work well for us.
>
> MATT---
>
> On 4/2/08, Atis Lezdins <atis at iq-labs.net> wrote:
>
>
>  Sorry for top-posting, but seems everyone on this thread did so.
>
>  Also that would be my suggestion for now - call queue with
> periodic-announce.
>
>  However i see that this would make nice architectural improvement -
>  allow inject sound files into MoH stream. This would be useful for
>  example in call queues - to inject all the queue announcements into
>  MoH directly, rather than play them while blocking further queue
>  actions.
>
>  Regards,
>  Atis
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Andreas van dem Helge
>  <joakimsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I think that's still a better idea than using a "dump the caller into
>  > meetme" hack and is actually what I was going to suggest.
>  >
>  > If you want something simpler than a queue then inject the sounds into
>  > the moh already.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Rob Hillis <rob at hillis.dyndns.org> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > You may be able to achieve the desired result using queues rather than
>  > > Dial statements.
>  > >
>  > > Overkill perhaps, but it's the only way I can think to implement it at
> the
>  > > moment.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > John Millican wrote:
>  > > Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:14:25 Pete Kay wrote:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > I am hoping someone can help me out on this. I want to be able to
>  > > interrupt MOH every X seconds after the DIAL command is executed. The
>  > > interrupt greeting is something like "please wait while we transfer
> your
>  > > call". How can I do that? Within the DIAL options, I can't see any
>  > > announce frequency or options that can help.
>  > >
>  > > Could anyone please tell me how that function can be accomplished?
>  > >
>  > > The only way to do that currently is to implement the prompt within the
> MOH
>  > > stream itself.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Just off the top-o-my head(YMMV), couldn't you create a meetme and play
>  > > hold music into the meetme and then also play the prompt into the
> meetme
>  > > at the same time without interrupting the hold music? This would
>  > > obviously not work for high load but...
>  > > JohnM
>  > >
>  > >
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