[asterisk-users] Getting 'username' of sip peer

[Jared Smith]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 22:48 +0530, Deepesh D wrote:
> When a call is made from any of these peers I want to get the username
> of the peer.
> for eg:- If a call is being made from 'TestSIPUser' then I want to be
> able to get the value 'testuser'

I can think of two ways of doing this.  The first is to use the
SIPCHANINFO() dialplan function, like this:

exten=>123,1,Verbose(0,The call came from ${SIPCHANINFO(peername)})

The other option is to use the "setvar=variable=value" setting in the
peer definition in sip.conf.  For example, if you add
"setvar=USERID=jsmith" in a user/peer/friend definition, Asterisk would
automagically create a channel variable named USERID with a value of
jsmith every time this device made a call into Asterisk.

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Jared Smith
Sr. Trainer
Digium, Inc.