[asterisk-users] New feature: calling all bug marshals

[Philip Prindeville]

So, am I not summoning the bug marshals correctly?  Or like druids and 
wizards, do they mystically sense when they are needed and emerge from 
the deep woods just in the nick of time?

(Ever notice that whenever Batman is needed at night, it's always 
cloudly?  How lucky is that!  What if you need Batman, and it's a 
perfectly cloudless night?  Or what if it were foggy?)

Will they send me a sign if my feature gets approved?  Should I look out 
the window towards downtown?  ;-)

Or... am I really supposed to file a bug after all?


Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I wanted to write a "popcorn" app for myself, both to learn how to 
> script in extensions.conf, but also because it was something handy.
>
> Along the way, I found myself doing something like:
>
> [popcorn]
> exten => s,1,Set(FUTURETIME=$[${EPOCH} + 10])
> ...
> exten => s,n,While(${EPOCH} < ${FUTURETIME})
> exten => s,n,Wait(0.01)
> exten => s,n,EndWhile()
> exten => s,n,Play(beep)
> exten => s,n,Hangup()
>
> and hating myself for it (my Asterisk runs on a 500MHz Geode LX).
>
> So I decided it would be useful (in general, and educational for me in 
> particular) to write a WaitUntil() application instead.
>
> Well, I've done that.
>
> I was going to file a bug and then post a "fix" to get their feature 
> in, but the Bug guidelines seem to be pretty clear that this is not 
> the way to go.
>
> So, I'm posting here instead.
>
> The example to paste into the documentation or extensions.conf is:
>
> [popcorn]
> exten => s,1,Answer()
> ; the amount of delay is set for English; you may need to adjust this 
> time
> ; for other languages is there's no pause before the synchronizing beep.
> exten => s,n,Set(FUTURETIME=$[${EPOCH} + 11])
> exten => s,n,SayUnixTime(${FUTURETIME},Zulu,HNS)
> exten => s,n,SayPhonetic(z)
> exten => s,n,SayUnixTime(${FUTURETIME},,HNS)
> exten => s,n,Playback(local)
> exten => s,n,WaitUntil(${FUTURETIME})
> exten => s,n,Playback(beep)
> exten => s,n,Return()
>
>
> I invoke it as:
>
> exten => 712,1,Gosub(popcorn,s,1)
> exten => 712,n,Hangup()
>
> And lastly, attached is the source for app_waituntil.c.
>
> It's fairly straightforward, and not very big.
>
> But hopefully useful.
>
> Oh, before I forget:  it does require the recording of one additional 
> phrase,
> either "local" or "localtime".  I've used "local" in my example 
> above.  And
> I read out the time first as GMT/UT (because I travel a lot), and then 
> in the
> timezone of my PBX...
>
> -Philip