[Asterisk-Dev] qcall CDR problem

[James Golovich]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, VoIP wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to use qcall to do callback service. And put the qcall file
> as follows, 
> ------------------------------------
> SIP/2001 at b.com 1001 at a.com SIP/3001 at c.com 0
> ------------------------------------
> Qcall first initiate a call to 2001 at b.com and wait for his answer, when
> 2001 at b.com answers the call, Qcall connects to 3001 at c.com. So 2001 and 3001
> can talk to each other. Here we set the caller id to 1001 at a.com.   
> 
> Actually there are 2 legs in this call. One is 2001 at b.com, and the other is
> 3001 at c.com. I found CDR only recorded call from 1001 at a.com to 3001 at c.com but
> no such CDR from 1001 at a.com to 2001 at b.com.
>  
> If 2001 at b.com and 3001 at c.com are both PSTN numbers, then it should be a big
> problem to charge the callback users. 
> 
> Although this is a user level questions, I doubt the CDR mechanism should
> have problem. 
> 

qcall has been deprecated in favor of the more versatile outgoing call
spool.  Check out the sample.call file that comes with asterisk, and I
believe the wiki has some good info on this as well.

and you said it, user level question.  Should have gone to -users instead
of -dev

James