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Many thanks to those responding to my query, especially Steven Critchfield.<BR>
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He was right, I had missed turning off the sound system on the Motherboard<BR>
in the BIOS settings. I turned it off, played with naming on my /dev/dsp* devices,<BR>
and my sound card is behaving properly. Still get error messages from the <BR>
chan_oss stuff, but I don't mean to use the console on asterisk anyway.<BR>
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I wrote up a variant of the app System(), and called it SystemCID(), which basically<BR>
takes the arg, and runs it thru sprintf, substituting any %s in the string with the <BR>
chan->callerid number string used in the privacy application, and handing the<BR>
result to system() for execution. The results of system are basically ignored, and<BR>
a zero returned.<BR>
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Why did I do this? I want to simply play the incoming caller name over the speaker<BR>
on the soundcard in the server. While I was at it, I also use it to play the name of <BR>
the intended person being called, as around here, several can share the same phone.<BR>
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I just use the plain old sound app "play" to do this by:<BR>
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exten => s,1,SystemCID(/usr/bin/play /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/priv-callerintros/%s.gsm&)<BR>
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If a sound file corresponding to the CID exists in the priv-callerintros dir, it sounds off. Otherwise,<BR>
no intro. <BR>
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Making an app to force anyone who doesn't have an entry, to record one for them, <BR>
shouldn't be that big a deal. Right now, I have such a beast in the privacy code I submitted,<BR>
but to prime the pump, I recorded intros for over 70 of the most popular callers to reduce<BR>
confusion and delays.<BR>
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Steven proposed using a softphone in auto-answer mode for such purposes, but I have a <BR>
hard time visualizing how this would work, exactly. Has anyone got such an caller announcement<BR>
system in operation? What was your approach?<BR>
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murf<BR>
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