Thanks for the update. I had made that assumption after looking at the
script but checked as I can't seem to get it to call. I added the
variable to the general section, created the script, made it executable
and no call. I wait the 10 minutes and monitor the asterisk and system
messages log. Is there any way to monitor the script or perl log to see
what's going wrong?
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Wieling aka ManxPower [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:43 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VM Outcall: Rube Goldberg Edition
Kevin wrote:
Is the pager filed in the vm config still for the outcall destination
or
where do you specify the number to call for the outcall?
Sorry.
You use notify= option in voicemail.conf:
3532 => 8711,Toni Hawkins,,,tz=central,notify=15045556389
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Wieling aka ManxPower [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 5:11 PM
To: Kevin; asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] VM Outcall: Rube Goldberg Edition
Resent to the list since I didn't think you would mind.
Kevin wrote:
Eric,
I have been using your vm outcall script for some time and it has
worked
well. Thanks for your efforts.
I am trying to re-install and I can't seem to get a call file
generated.
I have set up postfix and in the log it appears that it pipes the
message to the vmoutcall script. But that's as far as I get.
I was hopeful that you could offer a suggestion on how to debug the
activity of the script so I can try to figure out why it isn't
working.
I don't provide support for any of the sample scripts, etc that I
write.
The original VM Outcall was very primitive. Now that Asterisk has the
externnotify= option I have a much better, but still pretty primitive,
script.
In /etc/voicemail.conf, in [general] put:
========================================================================
===
externnotify=/usr/local/bin/vm-notify.pl
========================================================================
===
Here is the vm-notify.pl script:
========================================================================
===
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Fcntl;
use Fcntl ":flock";
$dial_context="local-access";
($vm_box, $vm_context) = $ARGV[1] =~/(.*)\@(.*)/;
$current_vm_context = "";
if(!sysopen($vm_conf_file_handle, "/etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf",
O_RDONLY))
{
printf("Cannot open /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf!\n");
exit(1);
}
while($vm_conf_line = <$vm_conf_file_handle>) {
chomp($vm_conf_line);
if((substr($vm_conf_line,0,1) eq ";") || (length($vm_conf_line) ==
0)) {
next;
}
($tmp_vm_context) = $vm_conf_line =~ /\[(.*)\]/;
if(defined($tmp_vm_context)) {
if($current_vm_context ne "") {
exit(0);
}
if($tmp_vm_context eq $vm_context) {
$current_vm_context = $vm_context;
next;
}
} else {
if($current_vm_context eq $vm_context) {
($tmp_vm_box) = $vm_conf_line =~ /(\d+)/;
if($tmp_vm_box eq $vm_box) {
($dial_dest) = $vm_conf_line =~ /.*notify=(\d+)/;
if(!defined($dial_dest)) {
exit(0);
}
close($vm_conf_file_handle);
# If there's already a .call file for this mailbox then don't
do anything.
# If there isn't already a .call file then create it.
#$call_file_name = "/tmp/" . $vm_box . ".call";
$call_file_name = "/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/" . $vm_box .
".call";
if(!sysopen($call_file_handle, "$call_file_name",
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL)) {
exit(0);
}
flock($call_file_handle, LOCK_EX);
# Set the access and modification times to be 10 years in the
future so
# Asterisk will ignore this file while we are doing stuff
with
it.
$long_time = time() + (10 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60);
utime($long_time, $long_time, "$call_file_name");
srand;
$call_delay=300 + rand(120);
# Build our .call file.
printf($call_file_handle "Channel:
Local/[EMAIL PROTECTED]", $vm_box, $vm_context, $dial_dest,
$dial_context);
printf($call_file_handle "WaitTime: 30\n");
printf($call_file_handle "RetryTime: %i\n", 60 + rand(5));
printf($call_file_handle "MaxRetries: 12\n");
printf($call_file_handle "Context: vm-notify\n");
printf($call_file_handle "Extension: s\n");
printf($call_file_handle "Priority: 1\n");
printf($call_file_handle "Callerid: Voicemail Notify
\<9852463509\>\n");
printf($call_file_handle "SetVar: VM_BOX=%s\n", $vm_box);
printf($call_file_handle "SetVar: VM_CONTEXT=%s\n",
$vm_context);
# Unlock and close the file.
flock($call_file_handle, LOCK_UN);
close($call_file_handle);
# Set the access and modification times to be 10 mins in the
future so
#Asterisk will delay for 10 mins before processing this .call
file
$short_time = time() + $call_delay;
utime($short_time, $short_time, "$call_file_name");
exit(0);
}
} else {
next;
}
}
}
========================================================================
===
In /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf you need to put this:
========================================================================
===
[vm-notify]
exten => _^X.,1,Cut(VM_BOX=EXTEN,^,2)
exten => _^X.,2,Cut(VM_CONTEXT=EXTEN,^,3)
exten => _^X.,3,Cut(DIAL_DEST=EXTEN,^,4)
exten => _^X.,4,Cut(DIAL_CONTEXT=EXTEN,^,5)
exten => _^X.,5,HasNewVoiceMail([EMAIL PROTECTED])
exten => _^X.,6,Answer
exten => _^X.,7,Hangup
exten => _^X.,106,Dial(Zap/g2/${DIAL_DEST},20)
exten => _^X.,107,Noop(DIALSTATUS=${DIALSTATUS})
exten => _^X.,108,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = CHANUNAVAIL]?111)
exten => _^X.,109,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = CONGESTION]?111)
exten => _^X.,110,Answer
exten => _^X.,111,Hangup
exten => s,1,Wait(1)
exten => s,2,HasNewVoiceMail([EMAIL PROTECTED],VM_NUMBER)
exten => s,3,Hangup
exten => s,103,SetVar(LOOP=1)
exten => s,104,ResponseTimeout(1)
exten => s,105,Background(vm-youhave)
exten => s,106,SayNumber(${VM_NUMBER})
exten => s,107,Background(vm-INBOX)
exten => s,108,Background(vm-messages)
exten => s,109,Background(vm-for)
exten => s,110,Background(extension)
exten => s,111,SayDigits(${VM_BOX})
exten => s,112,Background(vm-instructions)
exten => 1,1,ResponseTimeout(0)
exten => 1,2,VoicemailMain([EMAIL PROTECTED])
exten => #,1,Playback(goodbye)
exten => #,2,Hangup
exten => t,1,GotoIf($[${LOOP} > 3]?#,1)
exten => t,2,SetVar(LOOP=$[${LOOP} + 1])
exten => t,3,Goto(s,104)
========================================================================
===
Why all the crap with CUT and ^ asd that weird pattern match? Well,
as
far as I can tell when, in a .call file, you use SetVar, it does NOT
set
those variables for "Channel: Local/" leg of the call, only the
"Context: Extension: Priority:" part of the call.
This script, run by externnotify, creates a .call file that "calls" a
Local/ channel. That channel runs an extension that checks to see if
the user has new voicemail. Maybe they checked their voicemail
between
the time the .call file was created (when the message was left) and
the
time the .call file actually runs. The script makes sure the .call
file
will run about 10 mins in the future.
If the user has no new voicemail, the extension answers and then hangs
up the call. This makes sure the .call system knows that the call was
"answered".
If there is still new voicemail, then the call happens, and the person
is told how many messages they have, and have a chance to log into
voicemail. I would like to be able to detect voicemail answering and
not start playing prompts unless a human answers.
--Eric
