[Freeswitch-users] Rings Versus Seconds

[Robert Fitzjohn]

> That is odd to the new users because we are used to setting the number of
rings before our answering machine picks up

Likely cos the phone is localized/sold in a certain country, the
manufacturer has already done the required calculation.

On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 12:37, KitchM via FreeSWITCH-users <
freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org> wrote:

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> Thank you.  That clarifies things.
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> So as I now understand it, the industry uses seconds to define the length
> of time the callee will be hearing any sounds made during the ringing
> process of the phone call before he/she picks up the call.  Further, the
> auto-attendent and/or routing of calls will be based upon counts of seconds
> at each step
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> Do I understand that correctly?
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> That is odd to the new users because we are used to setting the number of
> rings before our answering machine picks up.
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> Jan 25, 2021, 22:53 by joe at expert.net:
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> The issue is that the length of a ring can be different as heard by the
> caller depending on the country/location of the recipient.  Also, the
> ringing on the recipients' device/phone can also be variable based on their
> ring-tone preferences and the make and model of the device/phone.  In other
> words, 3 rings can consist of 2 different lengths as heard by the caller
> and the callee.  As such, duration in seconds is really the only
> consistent way I know how to measure the timing of a ring.
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> The system appears to use seconds instead of rings to measure incoming call
> timing.  Is that correct?
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> If so, is there a way to change things to use number or rings instead?
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