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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Or you could just use &#8220;System&#8221;
and do it the easy way! &nbsp;AGI is better suited for more complicated scripting. &nbsp;In
any case, check out the TFOT book &#8211; you&#8217;ll like it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>-MC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Michael Collins</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 09, 2006
3:13 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Asterisk
 Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Asterisk-Users]
Possible for Asterisk to output CLID to invoke3rdparty app?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Seri,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I think you might just need to find the
right variable and pass it to your script. &nbsp;Also, you&#8217;ll probably
need to read up on AGI &#8211; I&#8217;m assuming that&#8217;s how you would
launch your Perl scripts. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s the list of variables on the wiki:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+variables">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+variables</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Most likely you&#8217;re looking for the
variable referred to as </span></font>${CALLERID(num)}<font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you haven&#8217;t already done so, you
might check out the O&#8217;Reilly book: Asterisk &#8211; The Future Of
Telephony, or TFOT for short. &nbsp;It has good information for beginners,
including some basics on getting up and running with AGI.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Try this: <a
href="http://www.speakup.nl/en/opensource/asterisktfot/">http://www.speakup.nl/en/opensource/asterisktfot/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The AGI stuff is in chapter 9.
&nbsp;Definitely read the first few pages &#8211; it will help you understand
how Asterisk communicates with Perl (or pretty much any other programming
language/shell script) using STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Also, don&#8217;t forget this obvious one:
<a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+AGI">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+AGI</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Happy programming!&nbsp; Oh, and welcome
the wild and crazy (but VERY cool) world of Asterisk!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>-MC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>lists.digium.com@al-najjar.co.uk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 09, 2006
2:45 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> '<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Asterisk
 Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion</st1:PersonName>'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Asterisk-Users] Possible
for Asterisk to output CLID to invoke 3rdparty app?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi all, please forgive me relative lack of knowledge
with Asterisk, but I&#8217;ve not played with PBX systems for a while and
I&#8217;m just re-finding my feet.</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I&#8217;ve set up my first Asterisk server, I have it
configured with a Digium X100P Analogue pots board, I have my Called ID working
and everything is hunky dorey with the server itself.</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>But&#8230; (and there&#8217;s always a but) I want to
pass inbound CLID information out from Asterisk to other applications for
display. Is there an easy way to do this? I have some simple command line perl
scripts that will take a number as an argument when called and then do what I
want with them (display the caller information on my Squeezebox) but after
trawling documentation and mailing lists I can&#8217;t find any way of doing
this.</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I&#8217;m probably missing something simple, but any
pointers would be a great help.</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>TIA</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Seri</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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