[asterisk-users] Ongoing calls interface

[Håkon Nessjøen]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:38 AM, David de Boer <boerdedavid at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm currently working on a PHP web interface to show (1) the registered
> endpoints and (2) their status: available, outgoing call or incoming call.
> (In the future, this interface should also be able to redirect calls etc.)
>
> (1) The interface already shows a list of all registered endpoints. For
> this, I had to work around Asterisk's delay in monitoring when an endpoint
> is unregistered. What I the interface does, is ping each endpoint to make
> sure it is still registered. Is there a better way to retrieve the endpoints
> still registered, instead of those that were registered an hour or so ago
> but might be unregistered already?
>
> (2) For each registered endpoint, the status needs to be displayed in the
> web interface. As I see it, there are two ways to retrieve this information.
> (a) Either I pull the information from Asterisk, by using some kind of "core
> show channels" command. I tried to use CDR to write calls made by the
> endpoints to a database. This works, but the rows are only written when a
> call is disconnected; I want to be able to see the status before that. (b)
> Another way is to keep track of notifications sent by endpoints. This is
> what I'm doing now. I added "action URIs" to all phones to make them send
> their data to a URL when they initiate a call, end a call etc. At that URL,
> a PHP script reads the data and saves it to a database. This works, but it
> feels like writing functionality that might already be available in Asterisk
> itself.
>
> Are there any other (better ways)? Which of the methods would be fastest
> for a large number of endpoints, and most reliable? Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
You should do a google for "Asterisk Manager Interface". :)
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