[asterisk-dev] ExternalIVR with sockets on release 1.6.2.0

[Chris Tooley]

That's very odd. I don't think there's anything special that should be
done. It should be using the same playback mechanisms as the rest of
Asterisk. The audio handling is done outside of ExternalIVR as far as
I know... Kevin?

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Dan Cropp <dan at amtelco.com> wrote:
> I'm now using Trunk revision 250614.
>
> I'm able to get the ExternalIVR to run from both a socket and from a
> shell script.
>
> I'm experiencing an odd behavior.  I can tell it to play and it works.
> However, the audio is playing very fast.
>
> If I make the dialplan answer and play (outside of ExternalIVR) the exact same sound file, it plays correctly.  I'm using ulaw sound files.  I have tried playing the beep, enter-a-time, and a non-Asterisk file.  All of them do the same thing.
>
> Is there a configuration setting that must be set for ExternalIVR to play
> ulaw files at normal speed?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David Ruggles
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:34 PM
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] ExternalIVR with sockets on release 1.6.2.0
>
> Dan,
>
> It's good to hear of someone starting to use ExternalIVR, it's one of
> the under-appreciated, less talked about, application in Asterisk ;-)
>
> There are several known bugs and issues that have been fixed in Trunk.
> If this is a pure development server and it's not that big a deal the
> easiest path would probably be to use SVN trunk and then 1.8 as soon
> as it's branched and released. If not, then you'll need to make a
> series of modifications to app_externalivr.c to fix these bugs. Also,
> the documention, doc/externalivr.txt, has been updated in Trunk to be
> accurate and to include information about the changes and enhancements
> to externalivr.
>
> You can see the list of changes here:
> http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk/apps/app_externalivr.c?view=log
>
> You would need to include the modifications back to revision 230438.
>
> If you don't switch to trunk, trunk's version of the documentation can
> be found here:
>
> http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/externalivr.txt?view=markup
>
> Please reply with any additional questions you may have.
>
> David Ruggles
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Dan Cropp <dan at amtelco.com> wrote:
>> I am running Asterisk 1.6.2.0 release.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am able to get the dialplan to execute an external IVR that's in a file.
>>
>> exten => 101,1,Verbose(1,Test)
>>
>> exten => 101,2,Answer()
>>
>> exten => 101,n,ExternalIVR(/root/play_beep.sh)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> However, when I try to have ExternalIVR connect to a socket it is not
>> working.
>>
>> For the server, I execute
>>
>> netcat -l -p 2949
>>
>>
>>
>> The dialplan looks like...
>>
>> exten => 101,1,Verbose(1,Test)
>>
>> exten => 101,2,Answer()
>>
>> exten => 101,n,ExternalIVR(ivr://localhost:2949)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> It successfully answers the call.  The output is showing...
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- Executing [101 at phones:3] ExternalIVR("SIP/1000-00000000",
>> "ivr://localhost:2949") in new stack
>>
>> [Mar  2 14:09:41] WARNING[3396]: app_externalivr.c:402 app_exec:
>> SIP/1000-00000000: Answering channel and starting generator
>>
>>   == Spawn extension (phones, 101, 3) exited non-zero on 'SIP/1000-00000000'
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does socket ExternalIVR require some additional modules or settings?
>>
>>
>>
>> Have a great day!
>>
>> Dan Cropp
>>
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