[Asterisk-Users] AGI comand channel status]

[Jerry Geis]

Sir,

Thanks for the reply. I have tried the callprogress in zapata and it was not reliable for me.
I have tried the backgrounddetect and it does not give me busy indications.

Dialogic had a callprocess function that gave busy status, waited for voice energy (some one saying hello)
so you new when the phone was answered etc...

I am not finding an all encompasing similar function in asterisk yet. 

Any further suggestions are welcome.

Jerry 

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Hello,

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:43:01 -0500, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users>> wrote:
>/ I am attempting to place a call in the outgoing spool directory
/>/ once that call is placed run my agi. I am using analog cards.
/
The problem is that there is no reliable call progress on ANALOG
lines. Asterisk just set the channel as ANSWERED or UP as soon as a
call is placed.

You can try enabling callprogress in /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf , but
you might have unreliable progress detection and many false hangups.
The comments on zapata.conf state:

; On trunk interfaces (FXS) it can be useful to attempt to follow the progress
; of a call through RINGING, BUSY, and ANSWERING.   If turned on, call
; progress attempts to determine answer, busy, and ringing on phone lines.
; This feature is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL and can easily detect false answers,
; so don't count on it being very accurate.  Also, it is ONLY configured for
; standard U.S. tones 

You might also want to take a look at application BackgroundDetect, just issue:

show application BackgroundDetect

from the CLI

Good luck,

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Nicolás Gudiño
Buenos Aires - Argentina

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Jerry Geis
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