[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-24439) Wrong billsec of a new call on an already answered channel

[Matt Jordan (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-24439?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Matt Jordan closed ASTERISK-24439.
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    Resolution: Not A Bug

This is not a bug.

The {{billsec}} value represents the time from when the channel was Answered to when the CDR was ended. If you explicitly Answer the channel, that starts the time. The 'C' options does still reset the CDR, however, CDRs reflect what actually happened to the channel - so the fact that the underlying channel is Answered causes the time to be updated immediately to the time when the Dial is started.

As you noted, the solution here is to not Answer the inbound channel.

> Wrong billsec of a new call on an already answered channel
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>
>                 Key: ASTERISK-24439
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-24439
>             Project: Asterisk
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: None
>          Components: CDR/General
>    Affects Versions: 13.0.0-beta1, 13.0.0-beta2
>         Environment: CentOS 6.5
> TE410P Digium Card
> libss7
>            Reporter: Farzan Doroodgar
>            Assignee: Matt Jordan
>         Attachments: asterisk13beta2-issue24439.log
>
>
> *What I want to do:*
> Answer an incoming call and Dial another number. When call is finished I need to have the correct conversation time of the newly made call (which is supposed to be stored in $\{CDR(billsec)\}).
> *What I am getting:*
> Since the channel is answered, the C option in Dial application is only resetting the answer variable of CDR to current time therefore the resulting billsec is equal to duration variable of CDR and is equal to channel seize time not actual call conversation time.
> *My dial plan:*
> {code}
> exten => 333333,1,NoOp(Here I answer the channel and make another call)
>     same => n,Answer
>     same => n,Dial(DAHDI/g0/123456789,,gC)
>     same => n,NoOP(Billsec: ${CDR(billsec) }) // Here billsec is equal to CDR(duration)
> {code}
> *Note:* If I simply remove Answer CMD from dialplan then billsec variable is showing the correct call time and this makes sense because channel was not answered and CDR(answer) will be assigned as soon as called party answers the channel.
> BTW, I was using Asterisk 13.0.0-beta1 until I upgraded to beta2 based on the hints received by asking help from community and SO but unfortunately the problem persists. Also I've used ResetCDR and ForkCDR but those had no effect.



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