[asterisk-users] Sending audio to a channel

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

On 3/25 Justin Newman wrote a message to the list mentioning his 
SystemAnnounce application that broadcasts audio to all active channels, 
I suspect his code would be easy to modify to broadcast to a single 
channel...

Moj

John Hass wrote:
> I have a voicemail application that users can listen to messages and
> leave messages.  I am looking for a way to play a beep tone to a user
> when a new message is received when they are on the phone.
>
> Here is what I have come up with:
>
> in extensions.conf:
> [beepvoicemail]
> exten => 1000,1,answer()
> exten => 1000,2,NoCDR()
> exten => 1000,3,wait(2)
> exten => 1000,4,Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=5)
> exten => 1000,5,playback(voicemail/beeps)
> exten => 1000,7,SendDTMF(9)
> exten => 1000,8,hangup()
>
> exten => 2000,1,Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=5)
> exten => 2000,2,NoCDR()
> exten => 2000,3,extenspy(,g(${mailbox})WqX)
> exten => 2000,4,hangup()
>
>
> Here is what I run:
>         Action: Originate
>         Channel: Local/2000 at beepvoicemail
>         MaxRetries: 0
>         RetryTime: 15
>         Context: beepvoicemail
>         Exten: 1000
>         Priority: 1
>         Callerid: Pager <1000>
>         Variable: mailbox=$mailbox_user
>
> I am using perl to originate so lets say mailbox 80085 left a message
> for 8675309 $mailbox_user would contain 8675309 everyone that is logged
> onto the system is part of there own spygroup the spygroup is always the
> mailbox number.
>
> This works when it doesn't crash Asterisk or the application does not
> get stuck on extenspy for hours and hours.
>
> Is there anyway to have an application that can just send audio to a
> channel without having to use extenspy (it's sort of overkill for what I
> need)
>
> Thanks For the help.
>
> --John
>
>
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