[asterisk-dev] Asterisk Manager Interface, Event: NewCallerid not raised at times

[Devraj Mukherjee]

Hi guys,

Another Asterisk Manager Interface question. What do you use to detect
when someone has picked up the phone?

Does the AMI generate an event for this? Join maybe?

Thanks

On 9/11/07, Devraj Mukherjee <devraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Nickolas and Richard for your responses. Will incorporate your
> experiences/suggestions :)
>
> On 9/11/07, Nicholas Blasgen <nicholas at blasgen.com> wrote:
> > I would advise against some of those though.  Asterisk has a habbit of
> > creating Zombie and Masq channels all the time.  It becomes hard to figure
> > out which ones are which.  I've had enough problems trying to match the
> > Channel information from NewCallerID with the channel name from LINK as a
> > channel gets bridged.  For me NEWSTATE ends up providing me too much
> > information and it's hard for me to parse.  LINK does great for my needs.
> >
> > I still get the impression though that the Manager interface isn't needed in
> > your case if the NewCallerID is the only state information you need.  But
> > just checking the LINK event infromation, it does include CID information
> > and from there you can load the data on your GUI.  Clean package.
> >
> > Finally, what I did during the development of my application was to dump all
> > EVENT logs to disk and then go through them to figure out what events I
> > needed to act on.  Someone should make a nice CLI based application to view
> > all events flowing through as a list, but be able to select them to see the
> > RAW data.  And some filtering.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/10/07, Richard Lyman <pchammer at dynx.net> wrote:
> > > TP'n to follow flow.
> > >
> > > there are a few things you can look at
> > >
> > > Newstate
> > > Newchannel
> > > Newcallerid
> > > Newexten
> > >
> > > i agree with Nicholas, that you can look at Link/Unlink for bridging
> > > info, but when you can also trigger off of things like 'AgentCalled' if
> > > you use queues.
> > >
> > > there are a few examples of Event triggers i use in this
> > > http://dynx.net/ASTERISK/gnudialer/display4/
> > >
> > http://dynx.net/ASTERISK/gnudialer/display4/AstDisplay.java
> > >
> > > this is just some java app to display channel state changes.  (it was
> > > originally designed for Zap (only) channels, but was mod'd for others,
> > > the 'others' part is not pretty)
> > >
> > > as with what Nicholas stated, you could easily do a 'UserEvent' from the
> > > dialplan and use that Event as a trigger in your app to make sure 'what
> > > you want, when you want it' is there for the taking.
> > >
> > >
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