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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The “Asterisk 11” part is irrelevant. You need to use an AGI or “local call” to use the ChanIsAvail function.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jerry Geis<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk 11 and DAHDI/i4<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>It is<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Action: ExtensionState<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Exten: 5551212<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Context: fubar<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>This will return the status of the dialplan exten hint.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>><i> and<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> Action: Command<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> Command: ChanIsAvail<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> Parameters: DAHDI/1<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> <o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> says Error<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> No such command "ChanIsAvail"<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>ChanIsAvail is a dialplan application not a CLI command. It also<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>will not work for what you want in this case.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>><i> I'm clearly missing something?<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Quite possibly. :)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Richard<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>OK - so what I am trying to do is through the AMI interface<br>ask if channel DAHDI/1 is busy, on hook or available.<br><br>How do I tell that....<br><br>In the past I simply did a "core show channels" and see if DAHDI/1 was present.<br>It it was I new it was in use... <br><br>How do check now in asterisk 11 if the channels are reported as DAHDI/i4 etc...<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Jerry<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>