[Asterisk-Users] Auto callout - reminder - is it possible?

[Roger Hanson]

>> On January 24, 2005 08:38 am, Roger Hanson wrote:
>>> I did see the wiki items: "asterisk auto-dial out deliver message" 
>>> and
>>> "Asterisk Auto-dial out" and think I may be able to muddle my way
>>> through getting that working (although that may be questionable) but 
>>> is
>>> it feasable to integrate this wit a website, where a user enters a 
>>> phone
>>> number in a form, then asterisk somehow gets this information from 
>>> the
>>> website and it gets added to a database or some way for Asterisk to
>>> gather that information and make the phone calls automatically? 
>>> Maybe
>>> with another option on what type of notification it would be 
>>> (furnace
>>> filter, 1 month reminder, 2 month reminder) based on a variable in 
>>> the
>>> form?
>>
>> The callout in the wiki blows goatass -- at least the voicemail 
>> one --  I have
>> a cron script which looks for messages in the watched "INBOX" folders
> and
> generates a callout every 5 minutes until the message is listened to 
> (at
> which time it is moved to the Old folder).
>
> As far as integrating with a website or database -- that is a piece of 
> cake.
> Your backend logic just determines when a call is needed and gerates 
> the
> approprate .call file.  Just remember to create it in /tmp or 
> something,
> close it and then MOVE it to the outgoing spool instead of creating 
> and
> working on it in the outgoing spool.
>
> -A.

 OK - I've made some progress.  I was able to use the wiki page 
"Asterisk
 auto-dail out deliver message" to record the messages, successfully.

 Now, I can't figure out this auto-dial thing.  Nothing happens when I
 move the call file to the /outgoing/ directory

 I have a file made in /var/spool/asterisk/tmp01 called 1.call.  Here it
 is:
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Channel: ZAP/go/9337367 Callerid: 9524458585 MaxRetries: 5 RetryTimie: 300 WaitTime: 45 Context: outboundmsg1 Extension: s Priority: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I copy it to /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing and it magically disappears (or does not appear?) in /var/spool/asterisk and nothing happens.  I have another CLI window to asterisk and nothing passes by - just dead. Now, I'm using AMP, if that matters. I've added the following to extensions.conf: ------------------------------------------------------------------- [record-outboundmsgs] ; Record voice files ; ; Before using this the first time ;    mkdir /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/outboundmsgs ;    chown asterisk_user:asterisk_user /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/outboundmsgs ;    (Where asterisk_user = the user that asterisk runs under: = root for many installations) ; ; In a context for incoming calls put something like ;  include => record-outboundmsgs ; ; Then call ;   2051 to Record a new outbound msg1 ;   2052 to Record a new outbound msg2 ; ;   2061 to Record the msg played when the recipient acks the message ;   2062 to Record the "How to ACK message" ; ; After dialing one of the extensions above: ;   Wait for the record start tone ;   Record your message ;   Press # to stop recording ;   Listen to an automatic playback of your new message ; ; outbound msg1 exten => 2051,1,Wait(2) exten => 2051,2,Record(outboundmsgs/msg1:gsm) exten => 2051,3,Wait(2) exten => 2051,4,Playback(outboundmsgs/msg1) exten => 2051,5,wait(2) exten => 2051,6,Hangup ; ; outbound msg2 exten => 2052,1,Wait(2) exten => 2052,2,Record(outboundmsgs/msg2:gsm) exten => 2052,3,Wait(2) exten => 2052,4,Playback(outboundmsgs/msg2) exten => 2052,5,wait(2) exten => 2052,6,Hangup ; ; ; Msg played when msg is acked exten => 2061,1,Wait(2) exten => 2061,2,Record(outboundmsgs/thankyou:gsm) exten => 2061,3,Wait(2) exten => 2061,4,Playback(outboundmsgs/thankyou) exten => 2061,5,wait(2) exten => 2061,6,Hangup ; ; Msg played after outbound msg: "Press 1 to replay or 2 to acknowledge receiving this message" exten => 2062,1,Wait(2) exten => 2062,2,Record(outboundmsgs/how_to_ack:gsm) exten => 2062,3,Wait(2) exten => 2062,4,Playback(outboundmsgs/how_to_ack) exten => 2062,5,wait(2) exten => 2062,6,Hangup -------------------------------------------------------------- Which is working correctly.  I can see that I've recorded and saved the above files in the correct places. In extensions.conf, I added this line: ------------------------------------------------------------ include extensions_callout.conf ------------------------------------------------------------- Because I thought that may survive an AMP reload? Then I created another .conf file, called extensions_callout.conf as shown: --------------------------------------------------------------- [outboundmsg1] exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,5 exten => s,2,ResponseTimeout,10 exten => s,3,Answer exten => s,4,Wait(1) exten => s,5,Background(outboundmsgs/msg1) exten => s,6,Background(outboundmsgs/how_to_ack) exten => 1,1Goto(s,5) exten => 2,1,Goto(msgack,s,1) exten => t,1,Playback(vm-goodbye) exten => t,2,Hangup [msgack] exten => s,1,Playback(outboundmsgs/thankyou) exten => s,2,Playback(vm-goodbye) [record-outboundmsgs] ;Before using this the first time ; mkdir /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/outboundmsgs ; chown asterisk_user:asterisk_user /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/outboundmsgs ;In a context for incoming calls, put something like ; include => record-outboundmsgs ; Then call ; 2051 to Record a new outbound msg1 ; 2052 to Record a new outbound msg2 ; 2061 to Record the msg played when the recipient acs the message ; 2062 to Record the "How to ACK message" ; ; After dialing one of the extensions above: ; Wait for the record start tone ; Record your message ; Press # to stop recording ; Listen to an automatic playback of your new messsage ; ; outbound msg1 exten => 2051,1,Wait(2) exten => 2051,2,Record(outboundmsgs/msg1:gsm) exten => 2051,3,Wait(2) exten => 2051,4,Playbacak(outboundmsgs/msg1) exten => 2051,5,Wait(2) exten => 2051,6,Hangup ; ; ; Msg played when msg is acked exten => 2061,1,Wait(2) exten => 2061,2,Record(outboundmsgs/thankyou:gsm) exten => 2061,3,Wait(2) exten => 2061,4,Playback(outboundmsgs/thankyou) exten => 2061,5,Wait(2) exten => 2061,6,Hangup ; ; ; Msg played after outbound msg: Press 1 to replay or 2 to acknowledge exten => 2062,1,Wait(2) exten => 2062,2,Record(outboundmsgs/how_to_ack:gsm) exten => 2062,3,Wait(2) exten => 2062,4,Playback(outboundmsgs/how_to_ack) exten => 2062,5,Wait(2) exten => 2062,6,Hangup ; ; -------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I way off base here?  I'm new to asterisk and definately over my head. Help? I can supply more information as needed.Sorry that this went to the non-commercial list - I didn't catch that.