[asterisk-users] Starting call recording using a dynamic feature to call a macro

[Gareth Blades]

Ignore me I figured it out. The dangers of copy and paste.
After looking through the code line by line I noticed the 'b' parameter 
to monitor(). Fine to use before the dial command but shouldnt be used 
when a call is in progress.


Gareth Blades wrote:
> I have got call recording working on our 1.4.30 asterisk box together 
> with a recording pause ability and being able to play different audio to 
> each party at the start and end of the pause. This all works perfectly 
> but one wish is to have the audio files have a beep or something in them 
> so when you listen later you can tell where the audio was paused.
> 
> So I changed things around so that instead of pausing and unpausing the 
> recording was stopped and then started again with a new file. An AGI 
> script would then join and mix the files together. The problem that I am 
> having is that I can stop the recording but when I ran the monitor 
> command again the recording didnt start.
> So I decided to start with a simpler test and just have recording off by 
> default and then use #2 to start it but that doesnt work either. I 
> wondered if it was something to do with the native bridging so set 
> canreinvite=no on the test handsets I am using but no change.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> features.conf
> [applicationmap]
> pauseMonitor   => #1,peer/callee,Macro,recpause,monitor-disabled
> startMonitor   => #2,peer/callee,Macro,recstart
> unpauseMonitor => #3,peer/callee,Macro,recunpause,monitor-enabled
> 
> 
> extensions.conf
> [macro-recpause]
> exten => s,1,Playback(disabled)
> exten => s,n,PauseMonitor
> 
> [macro-recunpause]
> exten => s,1,Playback(enabled)
> exten => s,n,UnpauseMonitor
> 
> [macro-recstart]
> exten => s,1,Set(FNAME=callrec_${MACRO_EXTEN}_${UNIQUEID}_GWTEST_${EPOCH})
> exten => s,n,Monitor(wav,${FNAME},b)
> 
> [internal]
> exten => 100,1,Dial(SIP/100,20)
> exten => 110,1,Answer
> exten => 
> 110,n,Set(DYNAMIC_FEATURES=pauseMonitor#unpauseMonitor#startMonitor)
> exten => 110,n,Set(FNAME=callrec_${EXTEN}_${UNIQUEID}_GWTEST_${EPOCH})
> ;exten => 110,n,Monitor(wav,${FNAME},b)
> exten => 110,n,Dial(SIP/110,20)
> exten => 110,n,Hangup
> 
> 
> log :-
>      -- Executing [110 at internal:1] Answer("SIP/100-00000004", "") in new 
> stack
>      -- Executing [110 at internal:2] Set("SIP/100-00000004", 
> "DYNAMIC_FEATURES=pauseMonitor#unpauseMonitor#testfeature#startMonitor") 
> in new stack
>      -- Executing [110 at internal:3] Set("SIP/100-00000004", 
> "FNAME=callrec_110_1272534191.4_GWTEST_1272534191") in new stack
>      -- Executing [110 at internal:4] Dial("SIP/100-00000004", 
> "SIP/110|20") in new stack
>      -- Called 110
>      -- SIP/110-00000005 is ringing
>      -- SIP/110-00000005 answered SIP/100-00000004
>      -- Packet2Packet bridging SIP/100-00000004 and SIP/110-00000005
>      -- Packet2Packet bridging SIP/100-00000004 and SIP/110-00000005
>      -- Executing [s at macro-recstart:1] Set("SIP/100-00000004", 
> "FNAME=callrec_110_1272534191.4_GWTEST_1272534203") in new stack
>      -- Executing [s at macro-recstart:2] Monitor("SIP/100-00000004", 
> "wav|callrec_110_1272534191.4_GWTEST_1272534203|b") in new stack
>      -- Packet2Packet bridging SIP/100-00000004 and SIP/110-00000005
>    == Spawn extension (internal, 110, 5) exited non-zero on 
> 'SIP/100-00000004'
>