[Asterisk-Users] Play message and dial extensions simultaneously

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

You can play music instead of providing a ringtone. ( I think it's the M
option for the dial command)

We used this for a reception solution so that the caller would not know that
they were not being ignored.

PaulH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Jackman" <hijackman at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Play message and dial extensions
simultaneously


> Hi,
> I've been looking for such solution without lucks. The prompts (either
> by Playback or  Background or app_queues) will have to complete before
> the Dial cmd kicks in, which takes a lot of time.
> Please let me know if you become aware of any solutions for this
> apparently obvious problem.
> Regards,
> H.
>
> On 11/10/05, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For what purpose?
> > Have you tried:
> > exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/1111,15&Local/123@${CONTEXT})
> >
> > exten => 123,1,Background(custom/msg1)
> >
> > It might not work, I have never tried something like this, but it might
work.
> >
> > On 11/8/05, Mike Clark <mike at infoanywhere.com> wrote:
> > > Ok, this has to be simple and I'm just not seeing it. On and inbound
> > > call, I want to play a specific message while simultaneously ringing
> > > extensions. Its basically like music on hold and queues, but I need
the
> > > message to always start from the beginning, not just play from where
the
> > > MOH process happens to be at that time. I tried Googling, but no luck.
> > >
> > > I did try
> > >
> > > exten => 1,1,Answer
> > > exten => 1,2,Wait(1)
> > > exten => 1,3,BackGround(custom/msg1)
> > > exten => 1,4,Dial(SIP/1111,15)
> > >
> > > but it played the entire message before dialing.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mike Clark
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