[VoIP] How to do more then one thing at the same time in a extension dial plan?

[gijones@clear.net.nz]

Mark thanks for the quick reply, I now have a starting point. I'll look into 
your suggestion about the music on hold.

It will be interesting to see what other suggestions people have.

Thanks
Brent
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rudholm" <mark at rudholm.com>
To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] How to do more then one thing at the same time in a 
extension dial plan?


> gijones at clear.net.nz wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I am not sure if this is possible but I want to be able to playback a 
>> recording to a caller but at the same time be ringing another phone and 
>> both things stopping when the caller hangsup.
>>
>> I'll explain what I am trying to do.
>>
>> I am a volunteer in the telecommunications section of a museum.
>> We have a map showing how phone calls can go around the world.  It has 
>> strings lights inside plastic tubing.  Some go off the map to a satellite 
>> then back down.  Others lie flat on the map representing submarine 
>> cables.  This was made 10 - 20 years ago.  All that was done is that the 
>> lights for each route are wired to an extension on a step by step PABX. 
>> So to work it a visitor simply dials the extension number for the country 
>> they are interested in.  The caller doesn't hear anything but ringback 
>> tone.
>>
>> One of the members has suggested we have  greetings appropriate to the 
>> country.  The playback and ringing individually is not a problem but I 
>> need both things to happen at the same time.  I would like to use the 
>> exisiting system to save a big rewiring job.  I already have the Asterisk 
>> box connected to a small PABX that can then dial into the bigger PABX.
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> So, in essence what you're trying to do is replace the standard
> ringback call progress tone with an arbitrary recording.  This
> is very easy to do with the "m" option in the Dial() command.
> It lets you set a Music-on-Hold class as the ringing call progress
> tone.
>
> You'll want to set things up so that the recording starts from
> the beginning each time it is played.  I'm not sure how to do
> that but I suspect there's a way.
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