It has not made a difference when I used the playback_terminators . My problem happens when the code gets to the while loop, this is past the playback command. As can been seen from the debug log the code does go into the while loop and waits for events it catches all events apart from dtmf. It seems the detection of dtmf events is not happening after the playback command [DEBUG] src/esl.c:1042 esl_recv_event() RECV MESSAGE Event-Name: SOCKET_DATA Content-Length: 5015 Content-Type: text/event-plain got event test event wait for event The full test script: require 'rubygems' require "ESL" require 'socket' include Socket::Constants #Log ESL::eslSetLogLevel(7) @ring_ring = "tone_stream://%(400,200,400,450);%(400,2200,400,450);loops=2"     def pick_up_call         @con.execute("answer")         @con.setEventLock("true")         @con.execute("sleep", "1000")         @con.execute("playback", @ring_ring)     end bind_address = "127.0.0.1" bind_port = 8084 socket = Socket.new(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) sockaddr = Socket.sockaddr_in(bind_port, bind_address) socket.bind(sockaddr) socket.listen(5) puts "Listening for connections on #{bind_address}:#{bind_port}" loop do   client_socket, client_sockaddr = socket.accept   pid = fork do     @con = ESL::ESLconnection.new(client_socket.fileno)     info = @con.getInfo     @uuid = info.getHeader("UNIQUE-ID")     @con.sendRecv("myevents")     @con.sendRecv("divert_events on")     pick_up_call             while @con.connected puts "wait for event"                 e = @con.recvEvent puts "got event"                 if (!e.nil?) puts "test event"                     name = e.getHeader("Event-Name")                     break if name == "SERVER_DISCONNECTED"                     if name == "DTMF"                         digit = e.getHeader("DTMF-DIGIT")                         duration = e.getHeader("DTMF-DURATION")                         puts "*** dtmf #{digit} #{duration}"                     end                 end         end         puts "Connection closed"   end   Process.detach(pid) end --- On Thu, 2/9/10, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote: From: Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Problems getting dtmf events - code and debug now attached To: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Date: Thursday, 2 September, 2010, 18:54 Did you do this? http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Channel_Variables#playback_terminators -MC On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Nigel Kent <ktngl@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: code below and debug log now attached. It seems once playback file is played no further dtmf events come through? Any ideas!         while @con.connected puts "wait for event"                 e = @con.recvEvent puts "got event"                 if (!e.nil?) puts "test event"                     name = e.getHeader("Event-Name")                     break if name == "SERVER_DISCONNECTED"                     if name == "DTMF"                         digit = e.getHeader("DTMF-DIGIT")                         duration = e.getHeader("DTMF-DURATION")                         puts "*** dtmf #{digit} #{duration}"                     end                 end         end --- On Wed, 1/9/10, Nigel Kent <ktngl@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: Nigel Kent <ktngl@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Problems getting dtmf events To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Date: Wednesday, 1 September, 2010, 21:15 I am trying to catch dtmf events but am having problems. It seems no dtmfs are being recieved. I can filter to other events and it gets picked up so this section of the code is doing the indented action of getting events. However I notice that during the execution of the playback command while the sound file is playing if a key press is done at this time the dtmf does get received. So my thought are what conditions does the playback command set in order to be able to have dtmf get recognized. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org