[asterisk-users] [1.4/AGI] CHANNEL STATUS never "down & available"?

[Steve Edwards]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Gilles wrote:

> I'm using an AGI script in Lua to make a callback through Zaptel.

> =============== AGI script
> #!/var/tmp/lua
> for i=1,10 do
>        io.write("CHANNEL STATUS\n")
>        response=io.read()
>
>        _, _, key, value = string.find(response, "(%a+)=(%d+)")
>
>        --Channel never "down and available"!
>        if value=="0" then
>                io.write("NOOP Channel idle\n")
>                response=io.read()
>        else
>                io.write("NOOP Channel N.A.\n")
>                response=io.read()
>        end
>        os.execute("/bin/sleep 2")
> end

I'm just a 1.2 Luddite...

I've never written an AGI in lua, but don't you have to read the AGI 
environment (from STDIN) before issuing requests?

Also, you execute your AGI in the 'h' extension. I think once a channel is 
hung up, it's state will not change until you reach the end of your 
dialplan execution and the channel is destroyed.

I'm guessing you would have better luck kicking off an external process 
that checks the channel status via AMI.

-- 
Thanks in advance,
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