[Asterisk-Users] CallerID

[JP Carballo]

Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:

> JP Carballo wrote:
>
>> Nitesh Divecha wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> My Asterisk is configured like a Soft Switch, I have many incoming  
>>> and outgoing traffic to different providers.
>>>
>>> How can I forward CallerID to my providers. My providers are  
>>> complaining big time as the CallerID is set to Zero...
>>>
>>> Please help!!!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Neal
>>
>>
>> In your provider's outgoing context, add the following before calling 
>> out:
>>
>> exten => _X.,1,Set(CALLERID(number)=${CALLERIDNUM})
>> exten => _X.,n,Set(CALLERID(name)=${CALLERNAME})
>>
>
> Why would he want to do that?  It's pointless.  It won't work.  If the 
> provider is not getting Caller*ID then no amount of the above lines 
> will fix it.
>
> You want to set the callerid using callerid=Robert Dobbs <666> in the 
> sip.conf, zaptel.conf, iax.conf, or whereever the calling device is 
> configured.  You'll notice the lack of quotes.  That's deliberate.
>
Ok, so? That's an 'If" alright. I'm not an oracle. He didn't give us any 
examples of what he wanted. I just grabbed the first thing I saw in my 
extensions.conf and pasted it.
Granted, that wasn't very bright, but the answer he needs might not even 
be what we think. He did mention incoming and outgoing, so my example 
could be wholly wrong.
But so could yours. He might not be able, (or might not want), to 
statically assign callerid.
How do we know he doesn't actually need to do exten => 
_011.,1,Set(CALLERID(number)=(${EXTEN}) ?

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