[Asterisk-Users] "night" mode ideas

[Chris A. Icide]

[features]
exten => 001,1,DBPut(FEATURE/STATUS=1)
exten => 001,2,Hangup

exten => 002,1,DBPut(FEATURE/STATUS=2)
exten => 002,2,Hangup

exten => 003,1,DBPut(FEATURE/STATUS=3)
exten => 003,2,Hangup

[inbound]
exten => s,1,DBGet(STATUS=FEATURE/STATUS)
exten => s,2,GotoIf($[${STATUS} = 1]?ringall,s,1)
exten => s,3,GotoIf($[${STATUS} = 2]?ringone,s,1)
exten => s,4,GotoIf($[${STATUS} = 3]?ringvoicemail,s,1)
exten => s,5,NoOp(STATUS is UNSET, please set STATUS immediately by dialing 
001,002, or 003)
exten => s,6,Hangup


where ringall is the context that handles ringing X, Y, and Z
ringone is the context hangling ringing Z only
ringvoicemail is the context sending the caller to Voicemail immediately

You can have a cron command like such

* 21 * * 1,2,3,4,5 asterisk -rx "database put FEATURE STATUS 3"
* 8 * * 1,2,3,4,5 asterisk -rx "database put FEATURE STATUS 1"

This should do what you described below

-Chris


On 12:30 PM 11/7/2004, Tom Lahti wrote:
 >Hi all.   I have a system I'm going to build that I have a pretty good idea
 >how I'm going to accomplish this feature, but I was wondering if anyone had
 >a better idea/method since mine seems somewhat "hackish" for some reason I
 >can't explain :)
 >
 >The system wants to have different incoming call handling more-or-less
 >based on time of day, but we don't want it to be at some precise UNIX time,
 >but rather under human control, so if people stay late they can keep it in
 >a more appropriate mode.
 >
 >What we're looking for is a way for someone on the system to pick up an
 >extension and dial some code that changes the incoming call context, i.e.
 >manually switching incoming call handling.  We want incoming calls to ring
 >extension X->Y->Z in one mode, ring only Z in a second mode, and only take
 >voicemail in a 3rd mode.  Th idea I came up with to solve this was to code
 >a special extension for each mode that used Authenticate() and then
 >System() to copy a different extensions.conf into place and restart
 >Asterisk for each mode.  Restarting seems a bit harsh since it will drop
 >any calls in progress.
 >
 >There would also be a cron job that would swap modes if they hadn't been
 >swapped by some time of day.
 >
 >Does this sound like a reasonable solution, or do any of the experts (ahem,
 >not me) have a more elegant solution idea?
 >
 >--
 >Tom
 >
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