[asterisk-dev] Asterisk Manager Interface, Event: NewCallerid not raised at times

[Devraj Mukherjee]

Thanks Nickolas and Richard for your responses. Will incorporate your
experiences/suggestions :)

On 9/11/07, Nicholas Blasgen <nicholas at blasgen.com> wrote:
> I would advise against some of those though.  Asterisk has a habbit of
> creating Zombie and Masq channels all the time.  It becomes hard to figure
> out which ones are which.  I've had enough problems trying to match the
> Channel information from NewCallerID with the channel name from LINK as a
> channel gets bridged.  For me NEWSTATE ends up providing me too much
> information and it's hard for me to parse.  LINK does great for my needs.
>
> I still get the impression though that the Manager interface isn't needed in
> your case if the NewCallerID is the only state information you need.  But
> just checking the LINK event infromation, it does include CID information
> and from there you can load the data on your GUI.  Clean package.
>
> Finally, what I did during the development of my application was to dump all
> EVENT logs to disk and then go through them to figure out what events I
> needed to act on.  Someone should make a nice CLI based application to view
> all events flowing through as a list, but be able to select them to see the
> RAW data.  And some filtering.
>
>
>
> On 9/10/07, Richard Lyman <pchammer at dynx.net> wrote:
> > TP'n to follow flow.
> >
> > there are a few things you can look at
> >
> > Newstate
> > Newchannel
> > Newcallerid
> > Newexten
> >
> > i agree with Nicholas, that you can look at Link/Unlink for bridging
> > info, but when you can also trigger off of things like 'AgentCalled' if
> > you use queues.
> >
> > there are a few examples of Event triggers i use in this
> > http://dynx.net/ASTERISK/gnudialer/display4/
> >
> http://dynx.net/ASTERISK/gnudialer/display4/AstDisplay.java
> >
> > this is just some java app to display channel state changes.  (it was
> > originally designed for Zap (only) channels, but was mod'd for others,
> > the 'others' part is not pretty)
> >
> > as with what Nicholas stated, you could easily do a 'UserEvent' from the
> > dialplan and use that Event as a trigger in your app to make sure 'what
> > you want, when you want it' is there for the taking.
> >
> >
>
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