[Asterisk-Users] generate dial tone

[Bruce Komito]

It's true, if you're not careful, you could give incoming callers access
to your outside lines.  But it is possible, with careful use of contexts,
to ensure that callers coming in on the context you specify for incoming
calls does not have access to the context that contains the dialplan for
outside calling.

Bruce Komito
High Sierra Networks, Inc.
www.servers-r-us.com
(775) 284-5800 ext 115


On Fri, 28 May 2004, Michael George wrote:

> I did take a quick look at it, but the header indicated that DISA
> allows incoming calls to dial back out.  I am just trying to emulate
> the feel of our current PBX which will just connect us to an outgoing
> line (with a dialtone) when we hit 9. (Though I don't want asterisk to
> mimic that behavior because I want to be judicious about which outgoing
> channels are used depending on the number dialed.)
>
> Am I mistaken on the use of DISA?
>
> On May 28, 2004, at 7:11 AM, Kevin Walsh wrote:
>
> > Michael George [george at auroravideosys.com] wrote:
> >> I get the 9 and start PlayTones().
> >> I go to the next context (with the tones playing).
> >>
> >> In the next context (tones still playing) my matches are all several
> >> digits long, so the tone is playing as the digits are pressed.  That
> >> is
> >> disorienting because that usually happens on a broken line.
> >>
> >> However, if you notice how Background() works, it will play the sound
> >> file and still accept input.  Once it gets the first input key it will
> >> stop playing and begin its matching.
> >>
> >> That is exactly the behavior I want.
> >>
> >> Now, I thought I could do playtones() and then match the just first
> >> input number (0, 1, or N).  On 0, 1 or N (in separate extensions, of
> >> course), I would stopplaytones() and then goto() the next context
> >> (international, long distance, local -- respectively).
> >>
> >> The int and ld contexts are straightforward, but the new local context
> >> needs to know which extension was dialed (the 'N') to complete the
> >> calling.  I tried that yesterday and got frustrated at the resulting
> >> complexity of trying to do such a simple and inconsequential thing.  I
> >> figured that the cost outweighed the benefit and I need to get this
> >> prototype going so that we can move into full launch.
> >>
> >> This dialtone issue needs to become a tier 2 or tier 3 feature.
> >>
> > Have you not looked at the DISA application (command) yet?  That seems
> > to me to be a much better solution to your problem.
> >
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