Streaming MOH GUI Instructions?

[SShrivastava]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post on this forum, you guys are awesome and I hope someone can help me out. I am a relative newbie, but I've had my PBX In a Flash system running my real estate office since April, so I am not a total newbie!

I would love to stream my favorite radio station for music on hold, but I can't figure out how to do this using the FreePBX GUI. I have seen some threads on how to do it from earlier this year, but FreePBX has added a new Streaming category to MOH and I want to utilize the GUI for getting the streaming to work.

Can anyone provide me with instructions? The FreePBX web site doesn't even contain adequate instructions on how to use the GUI, and I haven't seen anything on Nerd Vittles regarding this either.

I have installed the latest version of mpg123 hoping that it might expedite things. I am running FreePBX 2.5, the latest PBX In A Flash, all on a Linux virtual machine on my Mac Mini using VMWare.

Thanks so much for your help guys!

 

[jroper]

Have you seen this recent post :-

http://pbxinaflash.com/community/th...-internet-radio-by-phone-working.2666/?t=2666

Joe

 

[SShrivastava]

Thanks for the link, I followed all of the instructions and am still unable to get the MOH streaming to work. All I get is silence.

I installed and updated mpg123, created a new streaming category named "stream" with "/usr/bin/mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -f 8192 -b 0 http://64.72.118.115:6102" in the application line. I also created extension 69 as indicated as well as a queue with "stream" as the music on hold class. I ensured that mpg123 was, indeed, in the /usr/bin directory and it is, so the above path should be correct.

Whether I dial into my queue or extension 69, I get only silence. No streamed music. Any ideas?

 

[tshif]

Hmmm. I wonder if you can reach the music source at all. If you have windows, using Windows media Player, Do File, Open URL, and enter http://64.72.118.115:6102. If media player cant get there, PBX wont be able to either. I just tried it and that stream seems to be dead right now.

I Just tried http://160.79.128.61:7826 and its alive. Try substituting that in your setup and see if it works. (I usually test the stream source in Media Player for a quick and fast test.)

 

[SShrivastava]

Something else must be wrong, I just changed the streaming source to http://160.79.128.61:7826 as you suggested and dialed my queue, waited over a minute, and I'm still only getting silence.

I just ran a yum -y update and am now running the most updated CentOS 5.2, FreePBX 2.5.1.0. I also ran update-scripts but have not run update-sources since I have read that you should not do that, bad things happen. I am running Asterisk 1.4.something.

Is there something others are doing to get their streaming working that I've missed or has not been covered in the previously mentioned thread?

 

[tshif]

I wonder if you can reach the music source at all. If you have windows, using Windows media Player, Do File, Open URL, and enter http://64.72.118.115:6102. If media player cant get there, PBX wont be able to either.

Something else must be wrong, I just changed the streaming source to http://160.79.128.61:7826 as you suggested and dialed my queue, waited over a minute, and I'm still only getting silence.

I just ran a yum -y update and am now running the most updated CentOS 5.2, FreePBX 2.5.1.0. I also ran update-scripts but have not run update-sources since I have read that you should not do that, bad things happen. I am running Asterisk 1.4.something.

Is there something others are doing to get their streaming working that I've missed or has not been covered in the previously mentioned thread?

You really have to try an alternate means of testing the stream - if you have *ix, then try opening it with VLC - we have to make sure you can reach the stream at all.

 

[SShrivastava]

IT WORKS!!!!

I shutdown the virtual machine a couple of times, did an "amportal restart" once or twice, and now I'm hearing music!!!

YOU GUYS ARE TERRIFIC!! Thank you so so much!