[Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
Hi All, I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it. One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected. For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy the user in advance that it is taking that action). I didn't see any way to do this using the standard applications - would someone be able to point me in the right direction? Thanks! Tim ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
Tim Pushor wrote: I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it. One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected. For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy the user in advance that it is taking that action). Just go ahead and try to send the call there... it will fail immediately if it is not registered, with a DIALSTATUS of CHANUNAVAIL. If you are using CVS HEAD, you can use regexten to accomplish something similar, but I wouldn't recommend it as it's about to change :-) ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
Kevin, Thanks for the reply, and thats what I am doing now, but I would really like to know in advance if a particular phone has been registered before taking a certain action. I was wondering if I could do something with regexten, but seemed like a messy solution. Is there any other way? I don't mind getting my hands dirty with perl or C, but I wouldn't really know where to start ... Thanks, Tim Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Tim Pushor wrote: I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it. One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected. For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy the user in advance that it is taking that action). Just go ahead and try to send the call there... it will fail immediately if it is not registered, with a DIALSTATUS of CHANUNAVAIL. If you are using CVS HEAD, you can use regexten to accomplish something similar, but I wouldn't recommend it as it's about to change :-) ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
Hi All, I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it. One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected. For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy the user in advance that it is taking that action). There are a couple ways, but within the dialplan you can use chanavail(). On the console you can type show application appname to get more information about applications such as chanavail and dial. On the failure of a dial command the priority jumps 101, so for instance if you softphone was dialed at priority 3 and it failed the execution would jump to priority 104 where you could attempt to dial your deskphone. Finally, you can use the asterisk database. By dialing an extension to set a database value and checking for a value in the dialplan you can use logic to decide whether to dial an extension or not. Most of this is documented reasonably well on www.voip-info.org once you know what you are looking for. -Nate ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
I tried using chanavail and it didn't seem to work as I expected. I don't really want the user to have to do anything, other than register their phone, for the system to know that it should take a different action. Thanks, Tim Nathan C. Smith wrote: Hi All, I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it. One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected. For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy the user in advance that it is taking that action). There are a couple ways, but within the dialplan you can use chanavail(). On the console you can type show application appname to get more information about applications such as chanavail and dial. On the failure of a dial command the priority jumps 101, so for instance if you softphone was dialed at priority 3 and it failed the execution would jump to priority 104 where you could attempt to dial your deskphone. Finally, you can use the asterisk database. By dialing an extension to set a database value and checking for a value in the dialplan you can use logic to decide whether to dial an extension or not. Most of this is documented reasonably well on www.voip-info.org once you know what you are looking for. -Nate ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
Tim Pushor wrote: I was wondering if I could do something with regexten, but seemed like a messy solution. Is there any other way? I don't mind getting my hands dirty with perl or C, but I wouldn't really know where to start ... No, there is no cleaner way, because it's too channel specific and it might change after you ask for the status anyway... regexten is really what you want. I do have a pending patch in bug 3626 that would help; it deactivates an entire context if a peer is unregistered, or is registered and stops communicating... if you put the peers you care about each into their own contexts that would suffice. That patch will be expanded to include replacement regexten functionality as well. What value do you see in knowing whether the peer is registered or not before trying to dial it? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
Tim Pushor wrote: I tried using chanavail and it didn't seem to work as I expected. I don't really want the user to have to do anything, other than register their phone, for the system to know that it should take a different action. The channel available function will not tell you whether they are registered, only whether the channel string is valid-looking or not. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
One method that I use is to dial all of my extensions at once (Office,
home, laptop) and then dial my cellphone. Failing any of those to answer,
it drops back into my voicemail.
exten =
${RJSWORK},1,Macro(stdexten_cell,SIP/${RJSWORK}SIP/${RJSDESK}SIP/${RJSLAPTOP}SIP/${RJSHOME},${RJSCELL})
[macro-stdexten_cell]
exten = s,1,Dial(${ARG1},10,rtm)
exten = s,2,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
exten = s-NOANSWER,1,Dial(IAX2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/${ARG2},10,rtm)
exten = s-NOANSWER,2,Voicemail(u${MACRO_EXTEN})
;exten = s-NOANSWER,3,Goto(default,s,1)
exten = s-BUSY,1,Voicemail(b${MACRO_EXTEN})
;exten = s-BUSY,2,Goto(default,s,1)
exten = s-.,1,Goto(s-NOANSWER,1)
exten = a,1,VoicemailMain(${MACRO_EXTEN})
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:07:03 -0600
Nathan C. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it.
One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the
dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected.
For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via
my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy
the user in advance that it is taking that action).
There are a couple ways, but within the dialplan you can use chanavail().
On the console you can type show application appname to get more
information about applications such as chanavail and dial.
On the failure of a dial command the priority jumps 101, so for instance if
you softphone was dialed at priority 3 and it failed the execution would
jump to priority 104 where you could attempt to dial your deskphone.
Finally, you can use the asterisk database. By dialing an extension to set
a database value and checking for a value in the dialplan you can use logic
to decide whether to dial an extension or not.
Most of this is documented reasonably well on www.voip-info.org once you
know what you are looking for.
-Nate
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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
I was wondering if I could do something with regexten, but seemed like a messy solution. Is there any other way? I don't mind getting my hands dirty with perl or C, but I wouldn't really know where to start ... A suggestion is to take a look at the commands available at the CLI and determine if the information they provide would meet your requirement. In particular look at the command database show. This will/should show the phone registered and you can query the contents of the database from the dialplan using DBGet(). If this does not meet your needs you could try some of the other command to see if they do provide the information you are looking for. For example, the CLI command sip show peers. Information such as that from the sip show peers command is not available (so far as I'm aware) from the dialplan. However, if one or more CLI commands do provide the information you are looking for and you are prepared to write a little code, you can use the Manager API to call these commands and write the status into the registry database or into variables. It would be inefficient to have to run a manager command periodically. Fortunately, Asterisk provides some event information to processes listening on the Manager API port. The events broadcast include register/unregister actions. By monitoring the events your code can respond to the events of interest and, for example, update status variables dynamically. For more information about the Manager API see: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20manager%20API Bill Seddon Lyquidity Solutions Limited -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Pushor Sent: February 23, 2005 5:56 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered? Kevin, Thanks for the reply, and thats what I am doing now, but I would really like to know in advance if a particular phone has been registered before taking a certain action. I was wondering if I could do something with regexten, but seemed like a messy solution. Is there any other way? I don't mind getting my hands dirty with perl or C, but I wouldn't really know where to start ... Thanks, Tim Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Tim Pushor wrote: I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it. One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected. For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy the user in advance that it is taking that action). Just go ahead and try to send the call there... it will fail immediately if it is not registered, with a DIALSTATUS of CHANUNAVAIL. If you are using CVS HEAD, you can use regexten to accomplish something similar, but I wouldn't recommend it as it's about to change :-) ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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No, there is no cleaner way, because it's too channel specific and it might change after you ask for the status anyway... regexten is really what you want. I do have a pending patch in bug 3626 that would help; it deactivates an entire context if a peer is unregistered, or is registered and stops communicating... if you put the peers you care about each into their own contexts that would suffice. That patch will be expanded to include replacement regexten functionality as well. What value do you see in knowing whether the peer is registered or not before trying to dial it? It may sound dumb, but I would like the sytem to announce that it is attempting to dial my softphone before it does, as there can be a noticable quality/reliability drop (when sending the call out to me via SIP/VPN at a client site), that is acceptable as I am able to take calls remotely, but I would like to let the person at the other end know first .. Thanks, Tim ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?
Look at ast_exists_extension in pbx.c I have tinkered a bit around them, but not directly coded to it. In the app_voicemail.c code I think it is used to make sure the extension is valid. There might be code in there to see if the registration is active. Look further I see that chan_sip.c has a sip_show_registry() function that dumps out the registration state of things. But the coup de gras maybe the ast_device_state_changed() When the SIP stack expires a registered phone it calls expire_register() which calls ast_device_state_changed() to notifiy someone of the state change. Race The Tyrant Vanderdecken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Pushor Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:56 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered? Kevin, Thanks for the reply, and thats what I am doing now, but I would really like to know in advance if a particular phone has been registered before taking a certain action. I was wondering if I could do something with regexten, but seemed like a messy solution. Is there any other way? I don't mind getting my hands dirty with perl or C, but I wouldn't really know where to start ... Thanks, Tim Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Tim Pushor wrote: I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it. One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected. For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy the user in advance that it is taking that action). Just go ahead and try to send the call there... it will fail immediately if it is not registered, with a DIALSTATUS of CHANUNAVAIL. If you are using CVS HEAD, you can use regexten to accomplish something similar, but I wouldn't recommend it as it's about to change :-) ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
