[asterisk-users] Phone status

[Earl Terwilliger]

Michael,

you might take a look at this, as it does most of that + more:
 
	http://micpc.com/eventmonitor/

earl

On Thursday 24 August 2006 14:17, Mir wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm working on a project, where I need the status of every telephone on the
> system. (Idle,ringing,busy)
> If a phone is busy, I also need to know the callerid of the other end.
>
> I have made a deamon, which query Asterisk every second for active calls,
> this works by issuing a "Status" to the manager-interface, and processing
> the return data and then put the result into a MySQL table.
>
> The clients will query the MySQL table every second for the state of their
> phone, if there are no records with their numbers in it, they are
> considered idle.
>
> This works fine for calls from one SIP-phone to the other, this is for
> instance what it look like when extension 310 is connected to extension
> 311:
>
>
> Event: Status
> Privilege: Call
> Channel: SIP/310-08697fb8
> CallerID: 310
> CallerIDName: <unknown>
> Account:
> State: Up
> Link: SIP/311-0868fd98
> Uniqueid: 1156442804.74
>
>
> Event: Status
> Privilege: Call
> Channel: SIP/311-0868fd98
> CallerID: 311
> CallerIDName: Snom
> Account:
> State: Up
> Context: macro-vm
> Extension: s
> Priority: 5
> Seconds: 13
> Link: SIP/310-08697fb8
> Uniqueid: 1156442804.73
>
> That is pretty easy to decode.
>
> However when an external call is made to a SIP-phone, the result is
> different, this is a call from another Asterisk via an IAX trunk:
>
> Event: Status
> Privilege: Call
> Channel: SIP/311-08695698
> CallerID: 35254390
> CallerIDName: <unknown>
> Account:
> State: Up
> Link: IAX2/MR-1
> Uniqueid: 1156442974.76
>
>
> Event: Status
> Privilege: Call
> Channel: IAX2/MR-1
> CallerID: 35436121
> CallerIDName: <unknown>
> Account:
> State: Up
> Context: macro-vm
> Extension: s
> Priority: 5
> Seconds: 9
> Link: SIP/311-08695698
> Uniqueid: 1156442974.75
>
> The actual callerid of the caller is 3536121, 35254390 is the called
> number.
>
> How do I get the information, that 35436121 is connected to 311?
>
> Am I doing it in a stupid way, I'm aware that the Manager can give me
> realtime events, but I'm under the impression, that it is not very stable
> in a high traffic environment?
>
> Any help or good ideas would be appriceated.
>
> Michael