[asterisk-users] Not hearing first prompts

[Sherwood McGowan]

Alan Lord wrote:
> Stefan Guenther wrote:
>   
>> Alan Lord wrote:
>>
>>  >When I connect to various asterisk services such as VoicemailMain(),
>>  >MeetMe() as examples, I do not get to hear the first greeting messages.
>>  >
>>  >I've tried adding a Wait(1) before or after the application but this
>>  >seems to have no effect.
>>  >
>>  >Is there another setting/parameter I can play with to delay the start 
>>  >of the playback of these messages?
>>  >
>> do you use SNOM phones?
>>
>> We had the same problem with a number of SNOM phones.
>>
>>     
>
> Unfortunately not. It is the same if we use our Siemens DECT/SIP 
> handsets or the Ekiga softphone...
>
> I recall having this problem once before and that it "went away" when I 
> changed from Ekiga to Twinkle. When I get chance, I will re-install 
> Twinkle and see if that exhibits the same problem.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> Al
>   
Hrm...I have encountered this before and sometimes doing an explicit 
Answer() then a Wait(2), then calling the service can help.

Hope this is helpful

Sherwood McGowan