[Asterisk-Users] Billing inbound calls per minute

[Darren Wiebe]

Hours of struggling later, I have found the problem.  Here is the 
correct format for those outgoing calls.

SIP/1403XXXXXXX at provider||L(54081429:60000:30000)|Hj

I'll try to get a patch done up one of these days.

Darren Wiebe
darren at aleph-com.net

bbench at mail.bg wrote:

>>>>>On 00:30, Mon 06 Feb 06, bbench at mail.bg wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>I've been playing with astcc, but while
>>>>>>'billseconds' stays empty, 'billcost' has
>>>>>>strange behavior - either stays ampty
>>>>>>or takes ONCE the "Connect fee"(if I put one)
>>>>>>and keeps it that way no matter how long
>>>>>>the call is ...( if no "Connect fee" -stays empty).
>>>>>>i.e.
>>>>>>[inbound]
>>>>>>exten => 1122334455,1,Set(CALLERID(number)=${EXTEN})
>>>>>>exten => 1122334455,2,DeadAGI(astcc.agi,${CALLERIDNUM},${EXTEN},4)
>>>>>>exten => 1122334455,3,Hangup
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>Michiel van Baak wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>DeadAGI is for hungup channels, not for active channels.
>>>>>That might be a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>Try this:
>>>>>exten => h,1,DeadAGI(astcc.agi,${CALLERIDNUM},${EXTEN},4)
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>On Monday 06 February 2006 09:25, JP Carballo wrote:
>>>>ASTCC works fine here. The duration and billseconds fields in my cdrs as
>>>>well as ASTCC's cdr are filled.
>>>>I don't use the connect fee field though and all are set to 0.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Would you share with me how'd you do billing on a DID
>>>(if you do), and through what Technology?
>>>Anything that goes Local here is ANSWEREDTIME zero.
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>
>>On Saturday 11 February 2006 06:32, Darren Wiebe wrote:
>>Are you running a relatively recent version of ASTCC?  Say within the
>>last 6 months.  The answeredtime = 0 bug was supposed to have been fixed
>>by http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=4300  Unless something has changed
>>in Asterisk that affects this....
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks Daren,
>Yes, my version of astcc is the most recent one.
>Asterisk-1.2.4
>I have found you patch 0004300 from 16 May 2005.
>Probably it's time to reverse it back since "something has changed
>in Asterisk that affects this..." as you said.
>My observation is:
>If I keep:
>$dialstr = "Local/$phone\@$res->{path}|30|HL/n(" . ($maxtime * 60 * 1000) . 
>":60000:30000)";
>Either the billseconds is empty(when dial out through Local), either there is 
>a<ZOMBIE> when dialing in. 
>I put back the dialstring to:
>"Local/$phone/$res->{path}|30|HL/n(" . ($maxtime * 60 * 1000) . 
>":60000:30000)";
>The only difference that it looks only for is a default context.
>
>extensions.conf
>[inbound]
>; 10 digits DID = _XXXXXXXXXX = cardnumber
>; 
>exten => _XXXXXXXXXX ,1,Answer()
>exten => _XXXXXXXXXX ,n,Set(DB(RCID/${CALLERIDNUM})=${CALLERIDNUM})
>exten => _XXXXXXXXXX ,n,Set(realcid=${DB(RCID/${CALLERIDNUM})})
>exten => _XXXXXXXXXX ,n,Noop(${REALCID})
>;exten => _XXXXXXXXXX ,n,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=4)
>exten => _XXXXXXXXXX ,n,Set(CALLERID(number)=${EXTEN})
>exten => _XXXXXXXXXX ,n,Set(CALLERID(name)= ${REALCID})
>;exten => t,3,Goto(h|1)
>;exten => _XXXXXXXXXX 2,Goto(s|1)
>;exten => s,1,Wait,1 ; is this preventing HUP?
>exten => h,1,DeadAGI(astcc.agi,${CALLERIDNUM},${CALLERIDNUM},4) 
>; must be "h,1" as per Michiel van Baak note(above).
>exten => h,2,Hangup
>[internal]
>; i.e. 360 1234567 = DID = card
>exten => 3601234567,1,Macro(stdexten,3601234567,sip/did_owner)
>[default]
>include => internal
>[personal]
>exten => t,1,Hangup
>include => inbound
>
>Result:
>- ANSWEREDTIME is OK
>- inbound call billed on the callee
>- there is CALLERID(name) for callerid in the cdrs(kind of)
>There is still a small but "looong" problem - Timeout about 10 
>secs long while the IAX2/incoming Hangup in personal,t,1.
>But CDR is updated after that and the call is billed as expected.
>
>Sorry for the long explanation.
>What do you think? Is there something "suspicious" in
>that solution?
>Thanks,
>benchev
>
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Darren Wiebe
darren at aleph-com.net
Aleph Communications
ASTPP - Open Source Voip Billing & Calling Cards
www.aleph-com.net/astpp