[asterisk-dev] MeetMe: Development Request (and Bounty)

[Klaus Darilion]

Am 08.03.2011 11:54, schrieb Tony Mountifield:
> In article <4D7602F3.4070103 at pernau.at>,
> Klaus Darilion <klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 08.03.2011 10:54, schrieb Tony Mountifield:
>>> In article <4D75577B.2090201 at digium.com>,
>>> Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
>>>> On 03/07/2011 03:29 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>>>>> One really needs to hear media, busy or ringback tone from the other end.
>>>>
>>>> If the other end is not providing any, because they are using signaling 
>>>> instead of media to indicate call progress (or failure), then there 
>>>> isn't anything to hear.
>>>>
>>>> This could probably be addressed by modifying chan_local to have an 
>>>> option that causes it to turn signaling for call progress into audible 
>>>> indications, and then dialing out through chan_local instead of directly 
>>>> through the destination channel driver.
>>>
>>> Isn't that what the Progress() application is for? I seem to remember
>>> using it in a similar situation.
>>
>> Progress signals "progress". The problem is, that any upstream signaling
>> should be converted into the proper in-band pattern.
> 
> softins*CLI> show application progress
>   -= Info about application 'Progress' =- 
> 
> [Synopsis]
> Indicate progress
> 
> [Description]
>   Progress(): This application will request that in-band progress information
> be provided to the calling channel.
> 
> softins*CLI>
> 
> I have used Progress in the dialplan immediately before a Dial to
> specify that out-of-band indications (ringing, busy, etc.) received
> from the called channel should be converted to in-band tones on the
> calling channel.

That's not what Progress does:

/*!
 * \ingroup applications
 */
static int pbx_builtin_progress(struct ast_channel *chan, const char *data)
{
        ast_indicate(chan, AST_CONTROL_PROGRESS);
        return 0;
}

regards
Klaus