Hardcoded "Beep" at the end of a page?

[catbirby]

Hi all,

I have been working on trying to adapt the paging module in conjunction with TangoPBX’s Open Paging plugin to work as a school bell system (which so far has been great). A snag I ran into is that at the end of every bell/announcement, the system would play the “beep” audio. I did a lot of digging and found out that the beep seems to be hard coded into the paging regardless of settings changed in the GUI (aside from “Quiet” which also negates a custom set sound). This seems to stem from paging/agi-bin/page.agi at a12179bdf9e61aae1593d967d65ec90bd36dec31 · FreePBX/paging · GitHub on line 113, where it will always append the STREAM variable (which is hard coded to “beep”) to the end of chosen files. I worked around the issue for now by changing the hard coded value to the built in silence\1.ulaw audio file but that comes with the lovely security warning message about the file being altered.

I was going to open a bug report because this seems contradictory to a few other settings in the module like “Announcement tone” and “Auto-answer defaults” which both allow you to set the tone to “none”. But the ticket reporting guidelines suggest I come here if I wasn’t sure that problem was a bug, so I wanted to do that first and seek any guidance/recommendations on this issue.

[franckdanard]

[david55]

How does this differ from the Quiet option that the OP has already rejected, because it also suppresses wanted audio?

[catbirby]

Franck, I appreciate the reply,

I did mention this option in my initial post,

@catbirby

aside from “Quiet” which also negates a custom set sound

That option seems to be an all or nothing. But I still wish to use the “Alert Tone” to sound the bell, or the Open Page provided “Prepend Announcement”, the Quiet option silences both of these regardless of sound set.

[tpglitch (Tyler Kinney)]

I’ve found this a problem too, I think this should be fixed by Open Paging.