[Asterisk-Users] Dialer

[Wiley Siler]

Very cool!  Is this something you can share the code?

Thanks,
Wiley


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of trixter
aka Bret McDanel
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 2:17 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dialer

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:45 -0700, Wiley Siler wrote:
> Just to make it easy, I will be reading the caller list from a another

> server via a web page, parsing it and dialing.
> After each pass, I just post back to the server web page and it 
> updates the other system.
> Our tech just needs to review the log once daily.

That is basically what I did for a customer.  I have a DB that is
filtered pursuant to 47 CFR 64.1200 and 16 CFR 310 (US federal laws
concerning these types of systems -- not calling to the US, dont worry
about it).  I wrote some tools to make that a snap.  I then have 1-N
clients pull from the DB servier via HTTP to get the next number to dial
and context to goto.  The dialplan updates the DB via HTTP so the status
of a given number is known and prevents duplicate calls.

I added answering machine detection to my asterisk server and a few
other things to make the dialing slightly better.  

The way it works they can have many many calling systems if they need,
nothing has to be local to each other.  Reports can be generated off any
data that is available (timestamps of events, status of calls, etc).

This is perfect for dr appt reminders, batch calls saying 'your product
has been shipped' etc.  
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