[asterisk-users] dial extension and play sound file from shell on asterisk server?

[Duncan Turnbull]

Have a look at the call files examples of voipinfo

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+auto-dial+out

Its not too hard to do what you want

Cheers Duncan

On 8/04/2010, at 11:00 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> I want to use Asterisk as a general message delivery system here.
> 
> That is, I want to be able to have a (shell, perl, etc.) script on my
> Asterisk server dial an extension, wait for it to be answered and then
> play a sound file and then hang up, or even wait for a response or
> reactions to some IVR.
> 
> Certainly if I had a SIP library, I could have the script simply look
> like a SIP extension but that seems like it should be an unnecessary
> added complication.  Instead I am looking for a more direct API to
> Asterisk which allows a process to interact like a "phone" but not
> actually be one.
> 
> Is this at all possible?  Anyone done anything like this?
> 
> b.
> 
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