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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You are mis-understanding the concept – the noanswer option is playing the file as you requested, but since you aren’t answering the call, no channel is established to actually present the sound to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Zohair Raza<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 06, 2012 12:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> [asterisk-users] Playback with noanswer in AGI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I want to play a file in agi but dont want to answer the call<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am dialing through sip phone and running asterisk 1.8.6,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I tried following with no luck<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>$agi->exec("Progress");<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>$agi->exec("Playback $filetoplay,noanswer");<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>$agi->hangup();<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>When I dial I can't hear the audio but if I answer the call or remove noanswer argument I can hear the audio.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>phpAGI's stream_file didn't help either. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I ended up with ResetCDR() before hangup to reset billsec, duration and disposition but don't want to do it this way.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What could be the problem?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>From Voip-info.org :<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:white'>noanswer</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:white'>: Play the sound file, but don't answer the channel first (if hasn't been answered already). Not all channels support playing messages while still on hook.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Is it because the channel is not supported?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Zohair Raza<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>