Hi, I am searching for the most effective solution for the following scenario:
Our users can call into our IVR menu and dial a specific extension and immediately hang up. This event should simply trigger Asterisk to make multiple simultaneous calls through a group of zap channels (5-10 calls). When the called parties answer, Asterisk should simply play a message and hangup. So I was thinking that I could simply add this in extensions.conf: exten => 844844,1,Playback(multicall-activated) exten => 844844,2,agi(multicallagi.php) exten => 844844,3,Hangup Then the AGI script would simply create a call file for each destination number and the format would be something like this: Channel: Zap/g0/5555555 MaxRetries: 2 RetryTime: 10 WaitTime: 5 Application: Playback Data: soundfile However, Asterisk doesn't wait for the destination to pick the phone up, so the playback ends prematurely and the channel is closed. It works only if I use "Channel: SIP/5555 " (ie. it waits until the SIP phone answers and then plays the soundfile). I tried using Context: mycontext Extension: s Priority: 1 and the same thing happens: the context lines are "run" immediately and even if the destination is not on line. The only difference here is that I can make a long loop so it plays back several times so that if the called party picks the phone up, there's a chance that they will here the looped playback. But this isn't very effective. Has someone done a "better" approach? Does someone know why only ZAP channels seem to misbehave (they are immediately considered "answered" when they are not) ? Also, could the multicallagi.php script "cut free" a zap channel in case all channels are already in use in group g0? Basically, these would be emergency calls and I wouldn't want them to be hanging around a long time in the outgoing queue. Also if multicallagi.php frees a busy channel it could get busy again before the call file is placed in "outgoing". So is there a way so that Asterisk knows that the call files I'm putting in outgoing are "emergency calls"? I know I could dedicate another group of channels or a single channel for these calls but I don't have any available. Thanks Vieri __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
