[Freeswitch-users] moh background in Lua

[Anthony Minessale]

You could use mod_fifo with the chimelist configured and avoid trying to
replicate this manually.

you can certainly do it from ESL because you have a socket connection to the
channel and all the commands you send will be in the background.


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Tjardick van der Kraan <
tjardick at vanderkraan.net> wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
>
> Thanks for the quick and detailed reply.
>
> Could i pick your brain on the last remark, what i'd like to do is:
>
> - play a configurable time of hold music (30 seconds in the example) but
> this will be a variable later
> - play a message (and optionally detect dtmf if needed)
> - if no dtmf then continue music
>
> and loop the above.
>
> So basically creating an inbound holding point for people to wait before
> their call is answered, but give them the option to leave the 'queue' to
> direct them else where.
>
> Would in the async ESL i be able to stop the stream of music or would i
> need to do a bridge to local/9999 and unbridge to continue when i want to?
> Would ESL be the best way to
> do this ?
>
> Thanks for the help so far.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tj
>
>
> On 18 Mar 2010, at 21:19, Anthony Minessale wrote:
>
> The script is executing in the foreground and is being executed on your
> channel.
>
> You cannot tell the channel to do something else because it's already
> running your script so
> it can only run something else on top of it.
>
> you have 2 choices:
>
> 1) use the socket app in async mode and external scripts with an ESL
> plugin.
> 2) instead of executing the script on the session launch a script in a sep
> thread with the current uuid
>     ad an argument then execute park and let the script control the channel
> remotely
>
> Even better reconsider what you want to do and avoid working against the
> grain of how the existing architecture is flowing and you will have the best
> results.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Tjardick van der Kraan <
> tjardick at vanderkraan.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm trying to create a lua script but would like a certain task (music
>> on hold) to be 'backgrounded':
>>
>> -- Loop while the call is active
>> while (session:ready() == true) do
>>    -- do something here
>>    session:execute("playback", moh)
>>    freeswitch.consoleLog("INFO","Started music on hold.\n");
>>    -- do some stuff while playing music
>>    session:sleep(30000);
>>   -- Maybe we need a way to stop music or playback will stop
>> automatically?
>>   session:execute("playback", "/sounds/we_will_answer_asap.wav")
>>   freeswitch.consoleLog("INFO","Play'ed announcement.\n");
>> end
>>
>> "ofcourse" currently the only thin that happens is the music and my
>> loop does not continue.
>> Is there a way to start/stop music in the background?
>>
>> I guess in Asterisk language i will need the command StartMusicOnHold...
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tj
>>
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