[asterisk-users] Any reason to *not* use AEL? (Also, MixMonitor q)

[Sherwood McGowan]

Jay Moore wrote:
> I am building a new Asterisk server here at the office, and I'm 
> wondering if there are any downsides to creating my dialplan with AEL. 
> It seems more intuitive (to me), but I'm not sure if there are any 
> pitfalls I need to be aware of first.
>
> We use this for internal extensions, 8 pots lines, and our answering 
> service which gets about 500 incoming calls a day down our T1.
>
> Also, one more quick question too:  Currently I'm using MixMonitor to 
> record incoming calls.  The problem, however, is once calls are 
> transferred, recording stops.  Is it possible to keep recording after a 
> call is transferred, and if so, how?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jay
>
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I use AEL in almost everything I do and work a lot with Steve Murphy to 
work out any issues I have found with it. In Asterisk 1.4 AEL is VERY 
solid. The only thing you need to watch for is falling into some basic 
"traps" like calling ${EXTEN} from within a switch (the AEL compiler 
uses sw-xxxx extensions for case instances).  In order to easier see 
what the compiler puts out, I asked Steve to add the -w option to 
AELPARSE which writes a file (extensions.conf.aeldump) which is . much 
easier to read than doing a "dialplan show [context]".

Anyway, I'll be more than happy to help with any issues you may have 
with AEL. I'm even working on writing a little book or at least series 
of articles on AEL


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Sherwood McGowan
VoIP / Telecom Solutions
sherwood.mcgowan at gmail.com