[Asterisk-Users] executing an agi script after a successful Dial

[Dan Fernandez]

I just want to run a script to calculate the cost of a call to a cell
phone,long distance, etc. right after I execute a Dial app. and the call is
complete.

I gathered from your response that it would be possible to execute the dial
from inside the agi but this is probably not the way to go.
Aside from coding in c, or running a script with cron, what other
alternatives are there?  Someone must have done something on this regard
(calculating call costs)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] executing an agi script after a successful
Dial


> On Wednesday 23 July 2003 05:04 pm, Dan Fernandez wrote:
> > I would like to run an agi script (to calculate the cost of a long
> > distance or international call) right after I execute a Dial app.
> > Can this be configured in extensions.conf? It seems the entries
>
> It cannot.  If the Dial app succeeds in getting a connected channel,
> it will ALWAYS return -1, which signals a hangup to Asterisk.  The
> only time Dial will ever return control to the dialplan is if either
> the channel is not available or if the channel does not get connected.
>
> > right after a Dial app get executed only if the Dial app was
> > executed unsucessfully. Would I have to execute the dial app from
> > the agi script?
>
> No, again, the Dial app won't return control to the AGI script until
> after the call is complete.  You're pretty much going to have to do
> whatever you want to do prior to executing Dial or after the call is
> complete.  Of course, you could create a separate thread which
> runs parallel to the channel thread and does various monitoring
> tasks, but that would require some C programming skills.
>
> -Tilghman
>
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