The correct term for this tone is "howler". I'm surprised it is not in indications.conf
Robert Lister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 07:41:53AM -0500, Anthony Messina wrote: > >> well i'm looking for the feature that the telco provides where, if you've >> left >> the phone off-hook for 60 seconds or so without input, it gives you the >> loud "put the damn phone back on the hook" noise. >> >> it works if i set absolute timeout to 60 and use the congestion tone, but i >> was hoping to use the actual off-hook warning tone. >> >> it seems as if the tone itself is not generated properly within asterisk. > > Curious as I have not had problems with generating the tones. > > It's worth checking that in sip.conf the language= option is set to the same > section you are editing in indications.conf > > In the dialplan, what I think should happen is that when you do: > > Congestion() > > You send a congestion message back to the phone using SIP (rather than > in-band audio) so the handset is probably generating the Congestion tone, > not asterisk as it is not yet in the media path. > > If you did it inband audio:- > > Answer() > Playtones(congestion) > > This would play the tone from indications.conf - have an experiment with > this by setting up a little extension and dialling it. > > As far as I can tell, AbsoluteTimeout() is just a global timeout for the > duration of a call, so if you set it to AbsoluteTimeout(30) then the call > (any call) will be hung up after 30 seconds. > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+AbsoluteTimeout > > Some handsets allow you to customise the tones played - depends on the > handset. And some handsets have a hotline feature to dial a given extension > after no digits have been dial for N seconds. (So you could get the handset > to dial a special extension which then answers the channel and plays the > noise you want!) > > I could be wrong of course. Never wanted to do this as our phones just seem > to go back on-hook regardless after some dial timeout has elapsed. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users