[asterisk-users] Passing call duration to an AGI Script

[Luis Morales]

Hi Adi,

My be better if you send us the code about how did you do  to catch and
retrive the data from asterisk.

Regards,

Luis Morales 

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 01:21 +0300, Adi Simon wrote:
> Hi Martin, 
>  
> Thanks for your reply. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I am already
> running AGI periodically
> inside a call and it runs just fine. I'm using a patch for asterisk
> (can be found here) to do so. In short i'm using it for a prepaid
> system that needs to allow more than one prepaid call to run
> simultaneously. 
>  
> Anyway, I solved my problem by changing the code a bit. I added an AGI
> variable that holds the timestamp of the call answer time, thus
> allowing me to use it as an anchor for knowing how much time passed
> since the beginning of the call.
>  
> Thanks again,
>  
> Adi.
> 
> 
>  
> On 5/31/07, Martin Smith <martins at bebr.ufl.edu> wrote: 
>         Hi Adi,
>          
>         AGI is probably best viewed like any other dialplan
>         application (and with DeadAGI something that happens after,
>         but anyway) -- in my opinion. I've seen people do some pretty
>         wild stuff with it, but in the end, when I wonder if the
>         Manager interface or AGI interface is most appropriate for a
>         given task, I ask questions like "Would I want to do this with
>         another application? Is this even possible with another
>         application?".
>          
>         In your case, I'd say you probably couldn't say...
>         periodically execute a dialplan application that runs in the
>         middle of a call without interrupting the call (with AGI,
>         anyway). I'd recommend using the Manager interface and polling
>         for call durations / listening for events and acting on the
>         information you get back (I'd assume the answered duration is
>         one of those values you could poll for).
>          
>         Hope this helps -- others, please jump in if I'm way wrong :)
>          
>         Martin Smith, Systems Developer
>         martins at bebr.ufl.edu
>         Bureau of Economic and Business Research 
>         University of Florida
>         (352) 392-0171 Ext. 221 
>         
>          
>         
>                 
>                 ______________________________________________________
>                 From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:
>                 asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
>                 Adi Simon
>                 Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:54 AM 
>                 To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>                 Subject: [asterisk-users] Passing call duration to an
>                 AGI Script 
>                 
>                  
>                 
>                 Hi,
>                  
>                 I'm trying to find a way of passing the actual call
>                 duration (something like ANSWEREDTIME) to an AGI
>                 script that runs periodically during a call. Any
>                 ideas?
>                  
>                 Thanks,
>                  
>                 Adi.
>                  
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