[Asterisk-Users] live monitoring

[David C. Troy]

OK, I put together a quick patch to change app_zapbarge.c into 
app_zapscan.c; you should also update your Makefile in /apps to include 
reference to app_zapscan (just find reference to app_zapbarge and copy).

The patch is here:
http://asterisk.toad.net/app_zapbarge.c-change-to-zapscan

There are two problems with this as written:

 - It makes the assumption you have 23 zap channels (if you have a 
different #, change 23 to x)
 - It makes you listen to zap channels that are on-hook, which are a tad 
dull, if you know what I mean

I'd appreciate any help 1) determining how many zap channels one has, so 
we don't have to hardcode 23, 2) being able to detect whether a zap 
channel is on-hook so we can skip it.  I am sure both of these are 
straightforward, but I don't now how to do it.

Any help appreciated.

Dave

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On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, David C. Troy wrote:

> 
> Just set up an extension that calls it:
> 
> Exten => 7000,1,ZapBarge
> 
> Then enter the channel number and pound, and you're good to go.  It enters 
> the conference with ZT_CONF_MONITORBOTH option, which as far as I can tell 
> is a listen-only mode -- so no need to mute your phone.
> 
> Trick with ZapBarge vs. ZapScan is you need to know what channel you want 
> to listen to, as where ZapScan lets you scan through all of them much 
> easier.
> 
> I will post a patch to convert ZapBarge into ZapScan.  It's pretty
> trivial.  The thing I want to do that I haven't figured out yet, though,
> is I want to skip a channel if it's not in use.  Right now you end up
> listening to, say, 5 live channels and 18 on-hook channels on a PRI, for
> instance.
> 
> Dave
> 
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> David C. Troy   [dave at toad.net]                   410-384-2500 Sales
> ToadNet - Want to go fast?                        410-544-1329 FAX
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> 
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, mattf wrote:
> 
> > I see that zapbarge is integrated into my build of Asterisk, but could you
> > give me some simple instructions on how to use it, also where can we find
> > zapscan, I cannot find reference to it anywhere?
> > 
> > Do both of these simply monitor with one-way audio or do you need to mute
> > your phone before you execute them?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > MATT---
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David C. Troy [mailto:dave at toad.net]
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:58 AM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] live monitoring
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > No need to reinvent the wheel -- use ZapBarge.  I have also modified 
> > ZapBarge into what I call 'ZapScan', which lets you scan through all of 
> > your Zap channels by pressing # to change channels.  It works great!
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > =====================================================================
> > David C. Troy   [dave at toad.net]                   410-384-2500 Sales
> > ToadNet - Want to go fast?                        410-544-1329 FAX
> > 570 Ritchie Highway, Severna Park, MD 21146-2925  www.toad.net
> > 
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Alastair Maw wrote:
> > 
> > > mattf wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I've search through all of the lists and cannot find any descriptions of
> > > > live monitoring (monitoring a phone call going on between an extension
> > and a
> > > > zaptel channel live from another extension while the monitoring phone is
> > > > muted). I am aware of the monitor function which is actually a call
> > > > recorder, but I'm looking for live monitoring from a muted extension. is
> > > > this easily acomplished or is this a feature request?
> > > 
> > > I would also be very interested in doing this. I don't think it's 
> > > currently possible out-of-the-box, but presumably it wouldn't be 
> > > terribly hard to hack up the meetme application to support this, 
> > > provided it's possible to do a one-way audio conference. So, the 
> > > question is, is it?
> > > 
> > > Various people seem to be having SIP NAT one-way issues, so we could 
> > > pipe things out over a loopback device set up to block UDP going one 
> > > way. Very nasty and hacky, but might be easy and not much hassle. :)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Alastair Maw <al.maw at mxtelecom.com>
> > > MX Telecom - Systems Analyst
> > > http://www.mxtelecom.com
> > > 
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