[Asterisk-Users] Announcements via IAX phones

[Robert Rozman]

Hi,

I wonder if you're willing to share your setup with autoanswer mode...

Regards,

Rob.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Murphy" <murf at e-tools.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 7:50 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Announcements via IAX phones


> Hello--
> 
> What I'd like to do:
> Use IAX softphones running on computers, in Auto-answer mode, with sound
> going to speakers, as a sort of public announcement system.
> 
> What isn't working:
> Well, my first experiment was to set up the MeetMe system described on
> the Wiki...
> This works fine for voice announcements. You pick up a phone, dial the
> right extension, and an agi is fired up to put files in the call spool
> to call the autoanswer extensions, simultaneously as it were, and all
> are entered into the same conference. The caller is the admin. You 
> speak, they hear. It works fine. I changed the "kicked" gsm to a beep,
> as the conference is terminated by kicking everyone off, and it
> is kinda comical to end an announcement with "You are kicked from the 
> conference" message at the end...
> 
> But, I need to play automated announcements. So, I whipped together
> an agi to generate the sounds in the right sequence. But, how do I 
> link it to a conference? Since they are not ZAP channels, the softphones
> don't seem to be able to handle the background agi option (the Meetme
> 'b' option), which would have been a potential way to play the sounds to
> the conference.
> 
> I tried a Meetme call inside the agi. It kinda hangs-- You can be in a
> conf, but you can't play sounds to it until it ends... that won't work!
> 
> Thought about firing an AGI to call each softphone and dump the
> sequenced list of sounds, but it would take a while to run serially thru
> the list of phones to announce. This is unacceptable. It's all at once,
> or it's useless.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas? I'm running short on them at the moment.
> 
> Seems asterisk is powerful enough to do anything... but this?
> 
> murf
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve Murphy <murf at e-tools.com>
> Electronic Tools Company
> 
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