Asterisk cmd WaitForRing

Synopsis

Wait for Ring Application.

“This application can help with phantom ringing caused by a noisy FXO line.”
(quote taken from the dev mailinglist, stated in a conversation between Marius Stankevičius and Eric “ManxPower” Wieling on 03/26/2007)

Description

WaitForRing(timeout)

Waits a maximum of timeout seconds for a ring signal, which is only treated as valid until the second ring has completed.

Example

exten => 123,1,Answer()
exten => 123,n,WaitForRing(5)
exten => 123,n,SendDTMF(1234)

See also

• Wait
• WaitForSilence: Useful for example to leave a message on an answering machine/mailbox
• WaitForNoise
• Ringing
• SendDTMF
• Asterisk cmd BackGroundDetect

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