[asterisk-users] Play dial tone withou answer

[David Boyd]

Yes Lee, he could, however he doesn't want to answer the call until the
call has been completed on the outbound leg.

Dave

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:26 -0400, Lee Jenkins wrote:
> David Boyd wrote:
> > Two points,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > first (I believe from many previous threads, and viewing source code
> > ) you must answer a call to place audio on the channel.
> > 
> > second, depending on the type of access being used by the originator of
> > the call, the carrier will not pass audio on the channel back to the
> > originator unless they receive an answer indication from asterisk, so
> > even if you could place audio on the channel without an answer, there is
> > no guarantee still it would  propagate back to the originator of the
> > call.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Can't he just setup an extension to Answer() the call, play message or 
> Ringing() and then transfer the call?
>