[Freeswitch-dev] Detecting in-band DTMF Digits in Openzap?

[Alex Green]

Any thought on the email below? I would imagine that passing an analog 
call through freeswitch is not too uncommon a use-case...


>     4.: Potential bug:
>     DTMF digit detection *eats some audio* each time a digit is detected. If
>     the device is connected directly to free switch this is not a problem.
>     If a device makes a call through freeswitch (to let's say phone banking)
>     a digit that is held down may be detected as 3 digits (sometimes more)
>     due to the consumed audio. This can be heard on the other side of
>     freeswitch as a start-stop at the start of the DTMF.
> 
> 
> Indeed ZAP_CHANNEL_SUPRESS_DTMF causes zap_channel_read to memset the 
> read data each time a digit hit is found. The problem is that there is 
> no DTMF_START and DTMF_END events and the DTMF length is lost, we just 
> have a plain DTMF event for the start. Not sure about how to use 
> libteletone to detect the DTMF end though.
 >
DTMF suppression is mangling the digits.
It took me a while to get to the bottom of this, but it turns out to be
very easy to reproduce. Take Freeswitch with an FXS port and a handset.
Dial 1000 on the handset and answer the call on a SIP client. Now hold
down a digit. You will notice that the digit has a wobble at the start.
This is the symptom.

Commenting out the DTMF suppression code, changes the behaviour but does
not fix the problem. This is what baffled me for a while. I wrote some
trivial code that bridges two analog channels by doing a
zap_channel_read/write() from one to the other. Commenting out the
memset() on line 2042 of zap_io.c produced perfect digits while
uncommenting it produced the wobble. The obvious conclusion is that the
dodgy digit suppression is being attempted somewhere else (like the SIP
side?) and thus the wobble is being introduced at more than one place.
This also explains why I (non scientifically) noticed that the more
times the call passed through Freeswitch the more incorrectly recognised
digits were reported at the final point.

I imagine that a solution might be to just turn off DTMF digit
suppression by default until it is fixed.

Cheers, -alex


> Anthony, Mike? care to comment about this one?
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