[asterisk-users] Get Channel Variables in AMI Event NewExten

[Muhammad Faheem]

Thanks! Matthew and Dan.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:

> On 05/09/2013 08:16 AM, Dan Cropp wrote:
> > I believe you will have to monitor for the Newexten event, then send an
> > AMI Getvar command.
> >
> > It doesn’t make sense to pass all the possible channel variables along
> > with a Newexten event.  There may be a ton of extra variables that
> > someone may not want or need on the AMI.  Better to have them ask for
> > specific variables that are not standard.
> >
> >
> >
> > Action: Getvar
> >
> > ActionID: ValueYouCanIdentify
> >
> > Channel: IAX2/X.X.X.X:4572-5011
> >
> > Variable: fu_callerid
> >
> >
> >
> > This will result in a response from AMI…
> >
> >
> >
> > Response: Success
> >
> > ActionID: ValueYouCanIdentify
> >
> > Variable: fu_callerid
> >
> > Value: 141688xyxzz
> >
> >
> >
> > The ActionID is very important if you want to watch for an exact
> response to your request.
> >
>
> If you know the names of the channel variables, you can also configure
> manager to send them with every channel event.
>
> From manager.conf:
>
> ;
> ; Display certain channel variables every time a channel-oriented
> ; event is emitted:
> ;
> ;channelvars = var1,var2,var3
>
> So if you want fu_callerid, set:
>
> channelvars = fu_callerid
>
> And, once that variable is set, you should get a NewExten event, you
> should see the following key/value pair:
>
> ChanVariable(SIP/1234-00000001): fu_callerid=foobar
>
>
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>
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