[asterisk-users] Passing call duration to an AGI Script

[Adi Simon]

Hi,

What I did is first to dig a bit into the app_dial.c. I saw how the
ANSWEREDTIME variable
is created (end_time - answer_time). Then I added some lines to export the
answer_time variable
as a channel variable. I added these lines right after the answer_time
decleration (line 1426  in ver 1.4.4)
compiled and replaced the module.

                char toast2[80];
                snprintf(toast2, sizeof(toast2), "%ld",
(long)(answer_time));
                pbx_builtin_setvar_helper(chan, "ANSWERTIME", toast2);

This will put the call start time in unix timestamp in the channel variable
ANSWERTIME. That's
all. Hope it's helping.

Adi.


On 6/1/07, Luis Morales <lmorales at sigmadental.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Adi,
>
> My be better if you send us the code about how did you do  to catch and
> retrive the data from asterisk.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luis Morales
>
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 01:21 +0300, Adi Simon wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I am already
> > running AGI periodically
> > inside a call and it runs just fine. I'm using a patch for asterisk
> > (can be found here) to do so. In short i'm using it for a prepaid
> > system that needs to allow more than one prepaid call to run
> > simultaneously.
> >
> > Anyway, I solved my problem by changing the code a bit. I added an AGI
> > variable that holds the timestamp of the call answer time, thus
> > allowing me to use it as an anchor for knowing how much time passed
> > since the beginning of the call.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Adi.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/31/07, Martin Smith <martins at bebr.ufl.edu> wrote:
> >         Hi Adi,
> >
> >         AGI is probably best viewed like any other dialplan
> >         application (and with DeadAGI something that happens after,
> >         but anyway) -- in my opinion. I've seen people do some pretty
> >         wild stuff with it, but in the end, when I wonder if the
> >         Manager interface or AGI interface is most appropriate for a
> >         given task, I ask questions like "Would I want to do this with
> >         another application? Is this even possible with another
> >         application?".
> >
> >         In your case, I'd say you probably couldn't say...
> >         periodically execute a dialplan application that runs in the
> >         middle of a call without interrupting the call (with AGI,
> >         anyway). I'd recommend using the Manager interface and polling
> >         for call durations / listening for events and acting on the
> >         information you get back (I'd assume the answered duration is
> >         one of those values you could poll for).
> >
> >         Hope this helps -- others, please jump in if I'm way wrong :)
> >
> >         Martin Smith, Systems Developer
> >         martins at bebr.ufl.edu
> >         Bureau of Economic and Business Research
> >         University of Florida
> >         (352) 392-0171 Ext. 221
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >                 ______________________________________________________
> >                 From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:
> >                 asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> >                 Adi Simon
> >                 Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:54 AM
> >                 To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> >                 Subject: [asterisk-users] Passing call duration to an
> >                 AGI Script
> >
> >
> >
> >                 Hi,
> >
> >                 I'm trying to find a way of passing the actual call
> >                 duration (something like ANSWEREDTIME) to an AGI
> >                 script that runs periodically during a call. Any
> >                 ideas?
> >
> >                 Thanks,
> >
> >                 Adi.
> >
> >
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