Mohamed A. Gombolaty wrote:
Dear Rich,
It seems that my question is very general I apologize for that, but I
am glad to see others like yourself pointing me in different
directions, it seems all around the world we have problems with the
cleaning folks.
What I have in mind is to make the phone user lock his phone when he
is leaving with a special code and relock it back when he comes to
work (and
u mean unlock it......
as for emergency calls there are attendants who work at night who will
be able to make an emergency call whenever needed at the spot), now
there is nothing that seems to be able to do that directly, I have
played around with the gotoiftime and also the time based dial plan
include sent in mails before that.
But while working I thought of another approach why not create a php
web interface that each user logs in with a special username and
password and gives him access to lock his phone, and what php does is
actually change the secret password to something else than the
configured on the phone, this should make the phone unable to
authenticate thus not being able to make a call, and unlocking it
returns the password to it's right form, I have already found the
tables that I need to play around so I will restart making the php. I
will update the list back with my final result.
Do you guys think I could send a mail to the dev site to see if they
can add this feature to asterisk.
Am writing a few dialplans that you could use. I havent testted it.. u
might have to refine it.. am writing all this at runtime :-)
To lock and unlock phones, you need not go to php and change passwords
etc. You can use DB operations.
To lock phones, users can call into one particular number, e.g. *01
[lockphone]
exten => *01,1,Set(DB(LOCKPHONE/${CALLERID(num)})=1})
To unlock phones, u set the DB custom variable LOCKPHONE to zero, using
another number, say *02
[unlockphone]
exten => *02,1,Set(DB(LOCKPHONE/${CALLERID(num)})=0})
So, to avoid calls, you'll have to check the value of this custom
variable everytime. To avoid repeated checks even in the day time, you
can put the following dialplan, only in contexts which are invoked at
night(read the previous posts).
[night-context]
exten => 911,1,Dial(Zap/999) ;;;;;;;;;;;wotever syntax, I've never
worked with ZAP, for 911 emergency calls even at night.
include => lockphone
include => unlockphone
include => othernumbers
[othernumbers]
exten => _[0-9].,1, Set(locked=DB(LOCKPHONE/${CALLERID(num)}))
exten => _[0-9].,2,GotoIf($[${locked}=0]?:5) ;;;;;;;; allow call only
if phone is unlocked
exten => _[0-9].,3, Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}) ;;;;;;;; phone is
unlocked , so call away to glory
exten => _[0-9].,4, Hangup
exten => _[0-9].,5, Playback(hussh-sleep-now) ;;;;;;;;;;; cant call
now, cuz phones locked
exten => _[0-9].,6, Hangup
Now you lock n unlock ur phones whenever u want.
cheerz
- Ben.
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