[Asterisk-Users] Hopefully a Simple Question?

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

What about using system(echo) to push stuff into a text file, or the mysql
plugin to push stuff over to a database?

Paul Hales
Technical Manager
AsteriskIT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clint Tevlin" <actevlin at iprimus.com.au>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:36 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Hopefully a Simple Question?


> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm writing an app that receives a call on an incoming channel (A), the
> caller
> negotiates through a series of prompts and is transferred to an outgoing
> channel (B) using the Dial cmd. That part works perfectly!
>
> For billing I'd like to be able to charge for the time that the first
caller
> is connected to the callee on channel (B) so I can pass on my own outgoing
> voip costs.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> I can get the DIALTIME and END time of the call from the cdr but there
> doesn't seem to be a way of capturing the ANSWERTIME of channel (B) from
the
> dialplan.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> clint_in_sydney
>
>
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