Thanks. Got this working by using "setvar=variable=value" in the peer
definition
SIPCHANINFO(peername) is giving me the 'name' of the peer i.e.
'TestSIPUser' and not the 'username'.
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Jared Smith <jsm...@digium.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 22:48 +0530, Deepesh D wrote:
>> When a call is made from any of these peers I want to get the username
>> of the peer.
>> for eg:- If a call is being made from 'TestSIPUser' then I want to be
>> able to get the value 'testuser'
>
> I can think of two ways of doing this. The first is to use the
> SIPCHANINFO() dialplan function, like this:
>
> exten=>123,1,Verbose(0,The call came from ${SIPCHANINFO(peername)})
>
> The other option is to use the "setvar=variable=value" setting in the
> peer definition in sip.conf. For example, if you add
> "setvar=USERID=jsmith" in a user/peer/friend definition, Asterisk would
> automagically create a channel variable named USERID with a value of
> jsmith every time this device made a call into Asterisk.
>
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> Digium, Inc.
>
>
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