[asterisk-users] Early Media

[Danny Nicholas]

Is this correct for all versions, or does it start at 1.4 or 1.6?  I did put
a YMMV on the comment, so my answer was not to be taken as "fact".

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Early Media

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 08:34 -0500, Danny Nicholas wrote:
> YMMV, but you might try this
> 
> Exten => s,1,background(background_song)
> 
> Exten => s,n,Answer() ;start billing

This is not correct.  Background() automatically answers the call if it
hasn't been answered already.

The way to accomplish the task the original poster asked is to use the
"m" option to the Dial() application.

-- 
Jared Smith
Training Manager
Digium, Inc.


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