[asterisk-users] Asterisk auto-dial out a SIP .

[A J Stiles]

On Tuesday 28 February 2012, upendra wrote:
> hi,
> 
> an anyone tell me how to do  auto dial to a SIP  in Asterisk using a script
> .any example will be more helpful ... !
> 
> 
> Regards
> Upendra

You need to inject a callfile into /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing .  The file 
should look something like this  (representing a call from extension 301 -- 
here the technology is important -- to extension 101 in context "internal");

####################  8<  ####################
Channel: SIP/301
Context: internal
Extension: 101
Priority: 1
CallerId: 301
####################  >8  ####################

It's easy enough to start with a complete callfile with placeholders, in a 
scalar variable; then have your script do regular expression substitutions to 
fill in the values.

You must also be careful that Asterisk will not try to parse the callfile while 
it is in an incomplete state.  The canonical method to do this is to create it 
somewhere else on the same physical filesystem and `mv` it to the desired 
location.  In practice, if the callfile is smaller than one block, then you 
probably will get away with just creating it in situ.

-- 
AJS

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