[Asterisk-Users] Different Dial tones for internal and external.

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 13:31, Alex Lopez wrote:
> On systems even key systems it is customary to have an 'internal'
> dial tone.
>
> Since Asterisk simply ignores the 9 and keeps the tone going it is
> hard to tell for some 'new users' if they can make a call.
>
> My first idea was to change the generated dial tone via source.
> Then if the user presses 9 go to a different context where I would
> record about 30 seconds of the normal dial tone and then let them
> enter the numbers to dial.  Something it this:
>
>
> [internal]
> exten => 123,1,macro-stdexten(blah,blah,blah)
> exten => 124,1,macro-stdexten(blah,blah,blah)
> exten => 125,1,macro-stdexten(blah,blah,blah)
> exten => 9,1,Goto(trunkgroup,s,1)
>
> [trunkgroup]
> exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,5
> exten => s,2,ResponseTimeout,10
> exten => s,3,Playback(bell-dialtone)
> exten => _X.,1,Dial(Zap/g2/${EXTEN})
>
>
> It Works but there HAS to be a better way!!!
> Maybe instead of ignorepat a changetonepat in the context.
>
>  How do others do this or am I the first????

Here's how to do it:

In the zaptel driver, create a new tone in zonedata.c at the END of
a zone (so you don't throw off existing tone indexes).  Then, in
asterisk, in the specific channel driver (e.g. chan_zap.c), locate
ast_ignore_pattern and change ZT_TONE_DIALTONE to the
index of your new tone.  You can probably use ZT_TONE_CUST1
as your index.

Recompile, reinstall, restart (both the zaptel driver, as well as
asterisk).

-Tilghman