Thanks Grey and Philipp<br><br>Parsing the channel name is what we have been doing, but this has an unfortunate dependence on username as opposed to peer name. The username property of a SIP peer is not very well documented, and when using realtime SIP, it's an immutable field once loaded into cache.<br>
<br>So I look forward to the day we can upgrade!<br><br>Richard<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Philipp Kempgen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philipp.kempgen@amooma.de" target="_blank">philipp.kempgen@amooma.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Grey Man schrieb:<br>
<div>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Richard Brady <<a href="mailto:rnbrady@gmail.com" target="_blank">rnbrady@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi folks<br>
>><br>
>> I'm not sure what I am missing but I cannot find a predefined channel<br>
>> variable to identify the SIP peer/user which has initiated a call and<br>
>> established the channel.<br>
>><br>
>> The one option is to extract it from the CHANNEL variable, but that is<br>
>> fraught with difficulties.<br>
>><br>
>> Is there another variable I don't know about or another way to do this?<br>
><br>
> In 1.2 and 1.4 I don't believe there is any other way. Parsing the<br>
> username from the channel name is what we ended up having to do!<br>
<br>
</div>Since 1.6 there is CHANNEL(peername).<br>
<br>
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Philipp Kempgen<br>
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