Having a similar issue, I modified one of the zaptel tools to create a program I call ztplay. This simply opens a channel and plays audio it gets on stdin or a file, or fifo.
It does not even require that asterisk is running and can run along side asterisk as long as they are not both trying to use the same channel. This would allow you to connect your TDM card directly into your phone system. I use it in conjunction with mpg123 which streams audio to a fifo and ztplay simply reads audio from the fifo and resides in memory. I sent a copy to Mark a while back to include in the zaptel cvs if he wanted, but I haven't noticed it there. Contact me off list if you would like a copy of this. Ben -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Bresin Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 5:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Using Asterisk as an external MOH for Televantage5? As a little testbed asterisk project, to get my company comfortable with the idea of linux telephony, I decided to ask undertake a rather small project, replace our two boomboxes, which current supply our on-hold music via CD and a 1/8" jack to RJ12 plug cord, and instead use Asterisk to do it via mp3s. With the goal of reducing clutter in the server room, and be able to fix music on hold issues remotely. Sure, a 4 port sound card machine might have worked too. But I'd still need 4 1/8" -> RJ12 cables, and I wanted it to be 1U, and I don't know of any double or quad port sound cards... >From what I read, I thought it was going to be easy, but now that I've attempted to implement it with a 4 port FXS TDM card, I've run into a hitch. Asterisk seems to only want to play onhold music in response to a "Pickup". But since televantage just listens to the line and broadcasts that to all the callers on hold, rather than actually *transfering* them there, the "pickup" even never seems to get passed through. Plugging a phone into the asterisk ports, and picking it up triggers the music, but not plugging in the RJ12 from the televantage server. In any case, anyone have advice on how to fool asterisk into doing what I want? I'm using Asterisk and Zaptel version1.0.0 compiled against a 2.4.27 kernel. My /etc/zaptel.conf: fxoks=1-4 My /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf: immediate=yes callprogress=no context=musiconhold1 signalling=fxo_ks channel=1 context=musiconhold2 signalling=fxo_ks channel=2 My relevant /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf: [musiconhold1] exten => s,1,MusicOnHold(brand1) ; Play hold music immediately [musiconhold2] exten => s,1,MusicOnHold(brand2) ; Play hold music immediately My relevant /etc/asterisk/musiconhold.conf: brand1 => mp3:/var/lib/asterisk/brand1mp3 brand2 => mp3:/var/lib/asterisk/brand2mp3 Yell at me if I'm missing something obvious, or left something important out. Thanks to any who take the time to mull this over, been driving me crazy. kyle. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
