[asterisk-users] Generating a different countries ringtone on a per call basis

[Gareth Blades]

On 26/09/13 16:43, Rusty Newton wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Gareth Blades
> <mailinglist+asterisk at dns99.co.uk>  wrote:
>> On 26/09/13 14:59, Rusty Newton wrote:
>>> Try the following:
>>>
>>> extension =>   6001,1,Set(CHANNEL(tonezone)=us)
>>> same =>   n,Dial(SIP/6001,,r(ring))
>>>
>>> The argument passed to the r option should be the specific tone in the
>>> category of the tonezone you are setting.
>>>
>> Thanks. I did try that as pretty much the first thing I tried but it
>> continued to play the UK ring tone.
>> Its not a big issue as we can work around it by playing music on hold
>> instead which is a recording of the required ring tone. Having asterisk
>> generate it just seemed the neater option.
> Are you sure you specified an argument to the 'r' option? Or did you
> just try 'r' without an argument?
>
> For me.. if I specify a uk tonezone, to get it playing uk tones I have
> to specify an argument to the 'r' option. If I try just 'r' by itself
> then I get US tones. You would think, that without specifying an
> argument, it should default to the tonezone in use on the channel.
> That may be a bug or oversight.
>
> What version of Asterisk were you using, and what channel type?
>
That could well be it. It would have been with the standard 'r' option 
and not 'r(ring)' as thats the way our feature is currently programmed.

I have just tested it with r(ring) and that works.

Thanks