[Asterisk-Users] AbsoluteTimeout Inside A Macro

[Chris Shaw]

Hmm you're right, sorry about that...

Have you seen this comment in the wiki?

"if you connect a client to a sip peer with the option canreinvite=yes, then
absolutetimeout command has no effect."

Is it happening in both SIP and ZAP or just SIP?

    -Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Roberson" <twisted at indigent-networks.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] AbsoluteTimeout Inside A Macro


> Absolute timeout is 'T', and your standard timeout is 't'.  If he's
> looking for absolute timeout, he is, indeed, looking for the T extension.
>
> They are case sensitive, and should work.
>
> Mr. Wade:  Have you tried using the T extension outside of the macro?
> Although it *SHOULD* work within the macro, we may have stumbled upon a
> bug..
>
> -Josh
>
> Chris Shaw wrote:
>
> >For one thing it's 't' not 'T', just like invalid is 'i' not 'I'
> >
> >    -Chris
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher L. Wade" <clwade at sparco.com>
> >To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:03 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] AbsoluteTimeout Inside A Macro
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Christopher L. Wade wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>Is it just me and not reading the docs right, or has anybody else had
> >>>problems with the AbsoluteTimeout application and the 'T' extension
when
> >>>used inside a macro?
> >>>
> >>>[macro-attended]
> >>>; ARG1 is the device to dial out on, SIP or Zap, or whatever
> >>>; ARG2 is the extension to dial using 'attended' dialing
> >>>exten => s,1,AbsoluteTimeout(30)
> >>>exten => s,2,AGI(attended-extension,${ARG1},${ARG2})
> >>>; attended-extension takes a device string and an extension
> >>>; and builds a dial string according to some crazy internal logic
> >>>exten => s,3,Dial(${DIALSTRING},5,t)
> >>>exten => s,4,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
> >>>
> >>>exten => s-NOANSWER,1,Goto(s,1)
> >>>
> >>>exten => T,1,NoOp("i got here here")
> >>>exten => T,2,Goto(s,1)
> >>>
> >>>The purpose of this macro is to be able to say something like
> >>>
> >>>exten => _8XX,1,Macro(attended,SIP,${EXTEN})
> >>>
> >>>and have the the dialed extension rung, then, if no answer within 5
> >>>seconds, have the dialed extension plus an 'attendant' for that
> >>>extension rung, (etc. etc. etc.).  If nobody answers after 30 seconds,
> >>>the caller is (read 'will be') offered the chance to leave a voicemail,
> >>>otherwise re-enter the loop, ringing the 'full' attendant list for the
> >>>requested extension.
> >>>
> >>>When I test this, everything works according to plan, except when
> >>>AbsoluteTimeout expires, my T extension inside the macro is not
> >>>executed, the call is simply hungup.  What am I doing wrong?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Chris
> >>>
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> >>Anybody?
> >>
> >>Right now I'm considering doing this inside an AGI app, but I don't like
> >>the way Dial is 'blocking' (AGI or not).  I guess I could use chan_local
> >>in my dial string inside the AGI to make it 'fork' but that just creates
> >>a whole new ball of ear wax to deal with. :(
> >>
> >>This 'bug' seams strange though, because I've seen examples that, at
> >>least to my eyes, appear exactly the same as my above code.
> >>
> >>Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Chris
> >>
> >>
>
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