[Asterisk-Users] initiate call recording from phone.

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

Well... I don't know anything about A at h.  I know even more nothing about 
dialparties.agi... but I can summarize 
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+Dial for you:

Let's say you want to call out on a PSTN line.  A command such as the 
following will be in your outgoing context:
exten => x,1,Dial(Zap/2/18005551212,,W)
before the first comma means dial 18005551212 out the second Zap line, 
the fact that there's nothing between the 2nd and 3rd comma means wait 
forever for an answer, and the W means let the _calling_ user (you) 
start a recording (in my case, with *#)

Let's say you want to be able to record incoming calls from PSTN.  A 
command such as the following would be in your incoming context:
exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/110,20,w)
The SIP/110 is where to ring when an incoming call comes in, the 20 
means wait 20 seconds before proceeding (to voicemail, or whatever you 
want) and the small w means let the _called_ user (you, again) start a 
recording however configured.

So....... if you don't have direct control over your extensions.conf (as 
I said, I don't know A at h) I don't know if you can get your hands dirty 
with things like this.  Probably there's a check-box in A at h somewhere 
that allows this.

good luck!



todd wrote:
> Moj
> First great to see someone has figured this out, I have been struggling with 
> it.
> If not to much trouble; could you spare an example of where that "w or W" 
> exist in the Dial command. Also will this command in the Dial plan work if I 
> am using Asterisk at home.
> And how does this work into the whole picture with the dialparties.agi 
> script, if at all?
> Obviously I am a little confused on how this all works any help would be 
> GREATLY appreciated.
> Todd
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC" <mojo at horanappraisals.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] initiate call recording from phone.
> 
> 
> 
>>And the w or W options must be specified in the Dial() cmd, as in:
>>http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+Dial
>>
>>Moj
>>
>>Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC wrote:
>>
>>>If you have httpd with php on the * server, you can do what I did:
>>>
>>>I set up the key combination *# in features.conf to monitor and created a 
>>>few php files to interact with the results.  Save the four php files at:
>>>
>>>http://horanappraisals.com/asterisk/
>>>
>>>into a folder on the * web server, eg: /var/www/html/recordings/ -- 
>>>rename them all to .php instead of .phps, and edit config.php to point to 
>>>the asterisk monitor directory (usually /var/spool/asterisk/monitor). Now 
>>>make a soft link so the recorded waves appear in the web tree:
>>>
>>>ln -s /var/spool/asterisk/monitor /var/www/html/recordings/monitor
>>>
>>>Then direct a web browser to http://asterisk_server/recordings/ and it 
>>>should be pretty self-explanatory.  No recordings will appear in the list 
>>>if you don't have the sox packages installed.
>>>
>>>Andy Goss wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am looking for a way to allow a user to record a call simply by
>>>>pressing a button or some combination of buttons on their phone.  Is
>>>>this possible?
>>>>
>>>>I have read the stuff about the monitor command; however, this doesn't
>>>>seem to be very interactive for the user.
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Andy
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>H. Andy Goss
>>>>Network Engineer
>>>>Network Advocates Inc.
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>>>>DID: 502.992.5933
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