[asterisk-users] make asterisk do something when an outgoing call is picked up

[Thorsten Göllner]

Am 26.10.2014 00:43, schrieb lee:
> Hi,
>
> how can I make asterisk do something when an outgoing call is picked up?
>
>
> The background is that I would like to record incoming and outgoing
> phone calls.  In order to do this, I need to play an announcement
> telling the person calling or being called that the call will be
> recorded.
>
> Here's what I'm trying to do:
>
>
> call comes in:
>       if(I pick up) {
>         play announcement to caller;
>         start recording;
>         let me talk to the caller;
>         end recording when call ends;
>         send recording to my email account;
>       } else {
>         record voice mail;
>       }
>
>
> call goes out:
>      if(call is picked up) {
>        play announcement to callee;
>        if(callee hangs up) {
>          end call;
>        } else {
>          start recording;
>          let me talk to callee;
>          end recording when call ends;
>          send recording to my email account;
>        }
>      } else {
>        call ends;
>        offer me to automatically call again later;
>      }
>
>
> Please keep in mind that I'm new to asterisk and just got it to work.
> Searching for having asterisk do something when an outgoing call is
> picked up has been unsuccessful other than that I found out that you can
> have it make outgoing calls automatically to play pre-recorded messages:
> So asterisk does have a way to detect when a call is picked up and a way
> of doing something when that happens.
>
> What I have working so far is incoming and outgoing calls and voicemail
> for one phone/user, which is a basic set up I'm trying extend and
> improve now.
>

Maybe this will do a good job for recording all calls:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+ChanSpy

And playing an announcement, when a call is picked, should be done
within your dialplan with this function:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+Playback

-Thorsten-