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

[Rusty Newton]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Gareth Blades
<mailinglist+asterisk at dns99.co.uk> wrote:
> 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

Woot. Glad its working at least. I'll file an issue on the tracker, as
it is fairly non-intuitive that without specifying an argument the 'r'
option won't use indications from the tonezone being used by the
channel.

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