[Asterisk-Users] CallerID

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

JP Carballo wrote:
> 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}) ?
> 

My point is that CALLERID(number) is ALWAYS the same as ${CALLERIDNUM} 
so setting one to the other is pointless.  It's like setting 2=2.  Same 
with the CallerIDName stuff.