[Asterisk-Users] Playtones unexpected hangups

[John Todd]

1) I'm working on a quick replacement for DISA, and I ran into the 
following snag:  When I specify "Playtones(dial)" I can only get 
around 7 seconds of wait time before the dialtone stops, and the 
context goes to the "h" extension.  Is there a way around this fixed 
timeout?  The DigitTimeout setting doesn't seem to have any effect at 
all on this hangup problem.  I can provide more detailed examples.

Further experiments show that this happens with all Playtones - 
congestion, dialrecall, everything.  It would seem that the length of 
time Playtones will continue should be specified by a numeric seconds 
value passed to the program, with perhaps "0" equaling "forever".


2) Also, while this is not a problem for me at the moment, it seems 
odd to me that pressing DTMF keys (at least two) will cause any 
Playtones to halt, no matter what the tones.  This seems... 
unexpected in some cases.  It perhaps would be good to have it 
selectable if Playtones listened (stopped and went to next priority) 
to DTMF or did not.  As an example, I'd like to have "congestion" be 
constant and un-interruptable.  But, if I'm using Playtones(dial) to 
gather DTMF sequences, I'd like to have it stop playing when I hit a 
key, and pass the call to whatever digit was pressed.  Right now this 
feature is nice, because I'm using Playtones as a quasi-DISA. 
However, I imagine that an accidental keypress during a ringtone will 
cause confusion in some cases.

JT