[asterisk-users] Cisco Distinctive ring using alert-info

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Rich Adamson wrote:
> Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
>> I've got a cisco 7960, with (amongst many others) the following in the 
>> RINGLIST.DAT file
>>
>> Foghorn         foghorn.raw
>>
>> I can manually select this for the ringtone. However, I was wanting to 
>> use a normal ringtone, with foghorn being used if the call was coming 
>> in from the girlfriend/wife/mother-in-law etc ;)
>>
>> I was trying to use the following:
>>
>> exten => 5711,1,SIPAddHeader("Alert-Info: <Foghorn>")
>> exten => 5711,n,Dial(SIP/5711)
>> exten => 5711,n,Hangup()
>>
>> However, not matter what I try, I get the standard ringtone. If I use
>>
>> exten => 5711,1,SIPAddHeader("Alert-Info: <Bellcore-dr3>")
> 
> Our past experience indicates the <Bellcore-dr3> approach is the only 
> one that works.

That TOTALLY depends on the phone.