[*] [on-asterisk] Automatic Page/announcement with call files

[John Lange]

That worked Simon. I knew there must be a simple solution.

I guess I've never used a call file with a local channel before.

Regards,
-  
John Lange
www.johnlange.ca


On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:27 -0400, Simon P. Ditner wrote:
> Have the callfile create a Local/ channel instead of a SIP/ channel, then 
> you can set the appropriate SIP headers and then call the SIP endpoint 
> from your dialplan.
> 
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, John Lange wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to use asterisk to play a preset message/sound on a single
> > phone at a given interval (this is hooked up to a paging system).
> >
> > I figure the easiest thing to do would be to use a call file dropped
> > into /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing running on a cron.
> >
> > The problem is, the call file connects a channel (a SIP device) to a
> > dialplan which is fine except it won't start executing the dialplan
> > until the sip device is answered.
> >
> > In the call file how do I tell the sip device to auto-answer so the
> > dialplan starts executing?
> >
> > Or maybe there is a better way to do this?
> >
> > --
> > John Lange
> > www.johnlange.ca
> >
> >
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