Hello everyone This is my first posting via the mailing list I'm trying my hand at freeswitch esl with .net I've managed to get a hold of all incoming events, but can't seem to "pick up the phone" my first goal is to pick up the phone and read out some text via tts I've scoured the web, tried everything I can find or think of but no luck here's my code Private Sub winMain_Loaded(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs) Handles Me.Loaded ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(New WaitCallback(Sub(stateInfo) FreeSwitch = New ESLconnection("10.0.0.1", 8021, "mypass") Dim eslEvent = FreeSwitch.SendRecv("event plain ALL") FreeSwitch.SendRecv("event plain DTMF") If eslEvent IsNot Nothing Then AddEvent(eslEvent) While FreeSwitch.Connected eslEvent = FreeSwitch.RecvEvent AddEvent(eslEvent) End While End If End Sub)) End Sub Private Sub AddEvent(e As ESLevent) Dim dd = TextCollection(e.Serialize(""), ": ", vbLf) Dim eventname = dd("event-name") 'Dim uid = dd("Unique-ID") Dim uid = dd("Channel-Call-UUID") If dd("Caller-Network-Addr") <> "" Then Dim dcx = DBEntities() Dim ses = dcx.Sessions.SingleOrDefault(Function(x) x.ServerCode = uid) Dim ChannelState = dd("Channel-State") Dim ChannelCallState = dd("Channel-Call-State").ToLower Select Case eventname Case "CHANNEL_STATE" If ses Is Nothing Then ses = New Session dcx.Sessions.AddObject(ses) End If ses.CallerHost = dd("Caller-Network-Addr") ses.CallerName = UrlDecoded(dd("Caller-Caller-ID-Name")) ses.CallerPhone = dd("Caller-Caller-ID-Number") ses.CallerUser = dd("Caller-Username") ses.CalleeUser = dd("Caller-Destination-Number") ses.ServerCode = uid If {"cs_destroy", "cs_hangup"}.Contains(ChannelState) Then ses.HungUpOn = Now Case "CHANNEL_CALLSTATE" If ChannelCallState = "ringing" Then Dim evn = FreeSwitch.Execute("answer", String.Empty, uid) Dim res = evn.Serialize("") End If Case "CHANNEL_DESTROY" If ses IsNot Nothing Then ses.HungUpOn = Now End Select dcx.SaveChanges() End If End Sub the answer line is getting reached, and the result is "+OK" but the phone still keeps ringing please note that I'm unsure which is the correct uuid, but trying both of them gave me identical results As per advise from Nuwan Wijerathne, I put the "answer" action in the dialplan, and tried just the playback from code (just a wav file), but the result is the same. Freeswitch ignores entirely my commands. It picks up, and immediately hangs up because it has finished the whole dialplan I'd appreciate your help. I'm pretty new to freeswitch and esl Please advise Sincerely, ymo