[asterisk-users] Dial an extension to modify dialplan

[John Kiniston]

You could use the DIALGROUP function for this and not need to shell out.

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+14+Function_DIALGROUP

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Frank Vanoni <mailinglist at linuxista.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have the following scenario:
>
> [mynicecontext]
> exten => 2000,1,Dial(SIP/deviceA&SIP/deviceB&SIP/deviceC)
>
> As expected, by dialing 2000, all three devices will ring. And that's
> fine.
> However, there are situations where I only want "deviceA" and "deviceB"
> to ring. I would like to have an extension to dial in order to modify
> the dialplan.
>
> Here is what I did...
>
> In extensions.conf:
>
> ------ snip -----
> [mynicecontext]
> #include "ringdevice.conf
>
> exten => 2000,1,GoTo(ringdevice,ring,1)
>
> exten => 4000,1,System(/bin/cat /etc/asterisk/twodevices.txt
> > /etc/asterisk/ringdevice.conf)
> exten => 4000,2,Wait(3)
> exten => 4000,3,System(/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "dialplan reload")
> exten => 4000,4,Playback(service&de-activated)
>
> exten => 4001,1,System(/bin/cat /etc/asterisk/alldevices.txt
> > /etc/asterisk/ringdevice.conf)
> exten => 4001,2,Wait(3)
> exten => 4001,3,System(/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "dialplan reload")
> exten => 4001,4,Playback(service&activated)
> ------ end snip -----
>
> twodevices.txt contains
> exten => ring,1,Dial(SIP/deviceA&SIPdeviceB)
>
> alldevices.txt contains
> exten => ring,1,Dial(SIP/deviceA&SIPdeviceB&SIP/deviceC)
>
> By dialing 4000 or 4001, the dialplan is modified and reloaded
> accordingly.
>
> Is there a better solution?
>
> Frank
>
>
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