[Asterisk-Users] How would you go about calling a list of numbers and 'speaking' a message?

[Darren Wiebe]

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I have a script to do this found here:
http://www.astpp.org/index.php?n=Misc.AutoDialOut

Darren Wiebe
darren at aleph-com.net

Tom Engleward wrote:

> --- Angus Comber <angus at iteloffice.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been asked by a client to process a list of telephone
>> numbers. Asterisk should call each number in turn and if the
>> recipient of the call answers, play a message - eg from a wav.
>>
>> How would I go about doing that?
>
>
> Make your message as /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom/mymessage.wav
> Then you'll need to create a context in extensions.conf like:
> [my-outgoing] exten => s,1,Playback(custom/mymessage); exten =>
> s,2,Hangup
>
> then write a script to: 1. Read a single number from your list of
> numbers 2. Write that number into a .call file 3. Copy that .call
> file to /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing 4. Repeat for the next number
> in your list
>
> Asterisk will immediately make the call when the file shows up in
> the outgoing directory, unless the timestamp on the file is in the
> future.
>
> The .call files which you dynamically generate (one for each
> number) look something like this: Channel:
> IAX2/yourpstnprovider/numbertocall MaxRetries: 1 RetryTime: 5
> WaitTime: 60 Callerid: whatever Context: my-outgoing Extension: s
> Priority: 1
>
> WaitTime is how long to wait for an answer before giving up.
>
> See this page for details:
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+auto-dial+out
>
>
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