[Asterisk-Users] * 1.2.4 & 1.2.6: "Ringing" anamoly

[Chris Shaw]

Ronald Lewis wrote:
> I was alerted the other day by of all people, my mom, that she wasn't 
> hearing a "ring" when she dialed my number. Puzzled, I tried calling 
> myself. The call connects, but there's dead silence until voicemail 
> picks up. Calling internally, extensions worked perfectly. So, I 
> figured, "another damned Broadvoice issue."
>  
> For kicks, I upgraded to 1.2.6 today, and the end result is the same. 
> So, I went to the dialplan playground, and removed a few lines for 
> testing. It turns out that if I playback a file before ringing an 
> extension, ringing works fine. Without, dead silence.
>  
> Any ideas?
>   
Just out of curiosity did you happen to put an Answer() before playing 
audio or ringing? I use BroadVoice also and I used to have the exact 
same problem but putting Answer() as the first step in the context 
before playing my menu solved the problem.


    -Chris

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Chris Shaw
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