Musiconhold () streaming (DTMF, switching streams)

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

Hi everyone.

I am trying to work on a solution, where a caller can dial into DID and listen Internet radio streams. He/she should be able to navigate around the streams by entering numbers(1,2,…12,…).

Asterisk version: 1.6.2.18 compile from source
Distribution: CentOS 5.6 (Final)

I searched the forums and Internet but could not find any thing relevant to my problems.

So far, I have been able to make this work but still have problems with the following;

  1. Once musiconhold() app start executing, there is no way to accept user input through DTMF, at least in my knowledge.
  2. I found a solution to problem (1) above In the msiconhold.conf, there is a parameter “digit”
    ;digit=# ; If this option is set for a class, then when callers are listening to music on hold, they can press this digit, and
    ; they will switch to listening to this music class.
    The problem with this is that it only accepts single digit. I am not sure but may be its designed to accept only single digit.
    When I enter two digit number, it either only accepts first digit or select a two digit number randomly.

The bottom line is that I want user to be able to navigate through streams by entering the relevant digit codes. It would be best if I could read user input after musiconhold() starts executing, or any other solution that makes it work.

Here is the snippet of config files.

extensions.conf

[incoming]

exten=>1234,1,Answer()
exten=>1234,2,Wait(2)
exten=>1234,3,Background(Welcomeradio)
exten=>1234,4,WaitExten(,)
exten=>1234,5,NoOp()

exten=>1,1,MusicOnHold(1)
exten=>2,1,MusicOnHold(2)
exten=>3,1,MusicOnHold(3)
exten=>4,1,MusicOnHold(4)
exten=>5,1,MusicOnHold(5)
exten=>6,1,MusicOnHold(6)
exten=>7,1,MusicOnHold(7)
exten=>8,1,MusicOnHold(8)
exten=>9,1,MusicOnHold(9)
exten=>10,1,MusicOnHold(10)
exten=>11,1,MusicOnHold(11)
exten=>12,1,MusicOnHold(12)

exten=>#,1,Background(Welcomeradio)
exten=>#,2,WaitExten()
exten=>#,3,Goto(incoming,5)

exten=>i,1,Goto(incoming,3)
exten=>t,1,hangup()

musiconhold.conf

[1]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 4013.live.streamtheworld.com:80/ARNCITY_SC
digit=1

[2]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 radionri2.lbdns-streamguys.com
digit=2

[3]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 69.162.119.226:8300
digit=3

[4]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 208.186.112.40:8000
digit=4

[5]
mode=custom

application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 live.apnaradio.com:3232
digit=5

[6]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 -@ provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/CHUMFM.pls
digit=6

[7]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 -@ provisioning.streamtheworld.com/ … _DUBAI.pls
digit=7

[8]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 -@ provisioning.streamtheworld.com/ … AI_EYE.pls
digit=8

[9]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 -@ provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/DUBAI_92.pls
digit=9

[10]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 -@ provisioning.streamtheworld.com/ … LEEJIA.pls
digit=10

[11]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 -@ provisioning.streamtheworld.com/ … RABIYA.pls
digit=11

[12]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 islam2day.tv:4000
digit=12

2

Why not change things so that a user presses “1” to escape from the application, and that 1 does a goto into another context with a WaitExten where the user then inputs the stream (now you can do multiple digits) they want to listen to?

Cheers.

3

Hi Malcom

Thanks for your reply.

Are you referring to escape from musiconhold() app?
Can you tell how we can escape from it?

4

I think you want StartMusicOnHold ().

5

Thanks David.
Your suggestion led me to use

exten=>12345,4,WaitExten(,m(1))

and it works perfectly.

Malcom, did you have the similar idea or better? just for knowledge…

6

very useful scenario, but how can i return to the main welcome message instead of switching the stream??

7

you can use the Goto statement, and use special keys # or * any other as you desire.

8

Hi
I am trying to do something like your application.
I am using following to call musiconhold
exten=>1,1,MusicOnHold(1)
exten=>2,1,MusicOnHold(2)

and m using following in musiconhold.conf

[1]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 4013.live.streamtheworld.com:80/ARNCITY_SC
digit=1

[2]
mode=custom
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 live.apnaradio.com:3232
digit=2

But I am getting following error:
res_musiconhold.c:538 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!

Do you have any idea what m getting this? Please help me out with this. Thank you.