[asterisk-users] Setting channel musicclass from AGI

[James Lamanna]

Hi Matt,
So this actually works (haven't had a chance to try it)?

SET VARIABLE CHANNEL(musicclass) default

Because musicclass is piece of channel information.
Referencing ${musicclass} is not the same thing.

Thanks.

-- James

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 6:40 PM, James Lamanna <jlamanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Since SetMusicOnHold() is being deprecated, how do we set the channel
> > musicclass from an AGI script?
> > Last time I checked you can't call dialplan functions from AGI.
> >
>
> Actually, you can. Any time you can evaluate or set a channel
> variable, you can also evaluate or set a dialplan function. Hence, you
> can use both 'get variable' [1] or 'set variable' [2]. You could also
> use 'exec' and call the Set dialplan application directly.
>
> [1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/AGICommand_get+variable
> [2] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/AGICommand_set+variable
>
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