On 2/17/2012 9:47 PM, Ron Simpson wrote: Is it possible to use the voice mail features built into Asterisk for canned system announcements? I want to announce the various nets and meetings on the repeater. I would also like to use the vm feature for someone to call in and leave me a message. Am I doing some big time wishful thinking or is this possible!! 73, Ron - N6GKJ Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android Another two ways to do announcements at specific times (not voicemail): 1) Put an entry in the [schedule] stanza to run a macro at the desired date/time and have the macro play the recording 2) Put entries in crontab calling asterisk -rx with the commands in quotes, like: asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *9913" with this second method, you can call a script file and put many commands in the file to do something more elaborate than would you could do with a macro. For example /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *80" /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *9916" /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *9940" /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *711883" /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *6601" sleep 5 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *427061" sleep 5 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *6601#" sleep 5 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *428204" sleep 5 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *6601#" sleep 5 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *4533" sleep 5 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *6601#" sleep 5 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *9911" sleep 34m /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *892" /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *427061" 73 Ken - KE2N