[asterisk-users] read digits during recording / DTMF in conference?

[Kingsley Tart]

Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?

Cheers,
Kingsley.

On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 18:13 +0530, virendra bhati wrote:
> You may used even capturing in the case... when call  is recoding in
> conference
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Kingsley Tart
> <kingsley at skymarket.co.uk> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I want to create a system for incoming calls where, under some
>         circumstances, callers get routed straight to voicemail (or
>         some other
>         means of recording a message) but if they enter a valid
>         extension number
>         then the recorded message would be abandoned and they'd be
>         diverted to
>         the extension number they entered.
>         
>         I realise this can be done with the voicemail app with
>         operator=yes but
>         the problem with this is that the caller has to press 0 while
>         the
>         announcement is being played. If they're too slow and
>         recording has
>         started, they've missed the opportunity.
>         
>         So I played around with ConfBridge and a couple of call files,
>         just to
>         see if I could get it to work. It's a bit convoluted but the
>         idea is
>         that the caller gets silently put into a conference, then two
>         call files
>         make asterisk silently connect to other calls into the same
>         conference,
>         with one doing the recording and the other using Read() to
>         collect
>         digits.
>         
>         If I just had the caller and one of the other calls in the
>         conference
>         (the one doing Read()) then this worked - Read() managed to
>         read the
>         DTMF digits and assign them to a variable.
>         
>         However, when the 'recording' call is also in the conference,
>         the 'read'
>         call can no longer recognise the DTMF digits. To test, I made
>         the 'read'
>         call play a sound before calling Read() and I could hear this
>         being
>         played so the call was definitely there. However, regardless
>         of the
>         number of digits I pressed, Read() didn't notice any of them,
>         even if I
>         introduced a delay so that the other channels were quiet
>         before the call
>         to Read().
>         
>         I realise this might seem a bit like a mad solution but can
>         anyone else
>         think of a way to get Asterisk to read (and react to) DTMF
>         digits during
>         a recording?
>         
>         This is with Asterisk 1.8.7.
>         
>         --
>         Cheers,
>         Kingsley.
>         
>         
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> Thanks and regards
> 
>  Virendra Bhati
> +91-8885268942
> Software Engineer
> E-mail-: virbhati at gmail.com
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> 
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Cheers,
Kingsley.