[asterisk-users] ChanSpy or other variant

[Nicholas Blasgen]

Thank you Mark.  I did try it out myself and figured out that it did work as
I wanted.  Thanks for the quick reply though.

Nicholas Blasgen
Partner / Network Operations
Refractive Dialer LLC
408.395.2110 (w)
408.497.9796 (c)


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mark Michelson <mmichelson at digium.com>wrote:

> Nicholas Blasgen wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to listen in to a channel that I specify.
> > I have the impression I've seen this done via Flash web controls, but
> > I'm trying to write something myself and I can't figure out what command
> > would be used.  ChanSpy looks great, but I don't see how to specify the
> > channel.
> >
> > I have a channel identifier like "SIP/provider-08748db0" which is what I
> > would send to applications like Hangup(<chan>) or Redirect(<chan>) but
> > it doesn't look like ChanSpy was written to accept that format.  I
> > haven't tried passing "SIP/provider-08748db0" to ChanSpy, but from the
> > documentation it seems that it shouldn't work.
> >
> > So the question is, how can I listen into a channel if I know either the
> > channel or the unqiue id?  And in the meantime I will play around with
> > ChanSpy more.
>
> Chanspy should do exactly what you want. If you ran
>
> exten => blah,n,ChanSpy(SIP/provider)
>
> Then you would be able to listen to all active calls involving any channel
> whose
> name begins with 'SIP/provider'. If it turns out that there is a channel
> called
> 'SIP/provider-12345abc', then that channel may be spied on with the above
> ChanSpy call in the dialplan.
>
> The thing to remember is that the "chanprefix" argument as it is described
> in
> ChanSpy's documentation is literally any text that may appear at the start
> of a
> channel name. Chanspy(SIP) would allow you to spy on any SIP channel,
> whereas
> ChanSpy(S) would allow spying on both SIP and Skinny channels. There is no
> minimum or maximum limit to what this string may be.
>
> Mark Michelson
>
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