Help setting up the answering maching message

[ejansen]

I am trying to get the answering machine message to work, but can't seem to get it play the message. I only get the hold music playing on the call. Can someone give me a good example on how to get my recorded message hooked into the dialer?

[amicheals]

1. record your file
2. upload to asterisk server. place file in the /var/lib/asterisk/sound file
3. the file needs to be in .gsm format. to do that use sox to convert the file from .wav to .gsm
the command you run from the command line is:

sox foo.wav -r 8000 foo.gsm resample -ql

4. erase your original .wav file.
5. go to your extensions.conf file. find the answering message extension (I think it's extention 8320)
6. change the file name in parenthensis (conf) to the file name of your answering message file name. if the file name is foo.gsm only put in foo in parenthasis.

7. reload extensions and it should work.

[ejansen]

I made the changes as per instructions. How do you reload the extensions file?

[amicheals]

1. go to the asterisk cli
asterisk -r
2. then type
extensions reload