Re: [Asterisk-Users] Auto callout - reminder - is it possible?

[Roger Hanson]

Peter Svensson wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: As far as integrating with a website or database -- that is a piece of cake. Your backend logic just determines when a call is needed and gerates the approprate .call file. Just remember to create it in /tmp or something, close it and then MOVE it to the outgoing spool instead of creating and working on it in the outgoing spool. You need to create the temporary file on the same device as the call spool resides on. Otherwise the move from the temporary location the the call spool will not be an atomic operation but rather a read-write-unlink sequence. This has been discussed earlier on the mailing list. Just make a temporary directory next to the call spool directory and create the files there. Peter I haven't been able to get asterisk to call out using a .call file.   Here's what I have - trying to dial out IAX2 trunk via voipjet Channel: IAX2/voipjet/9529337367 Callerid: 9528567061 MaxRetries: 5 RetryTime: 300 WaitTime: 45 Context: outboundmsg1 Extension: s Priority: 1 I'm following the instructions on the Wiki at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out+deliver+message I've recorded the messages successfully, but not convinced asterisk to dial out. I'm creating the 1.call file in another directory (/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/tmp1), then moving it to the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing  directory.  I have another putty session running on asterisk and logged into the asterisk console, but see no activity after the file is copied in the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing directory. Is my 1.call file hosed and causing the trouble?  something I'm missing? I'm using Asterisk @ home 2.2. Here's what I put in my extensions_custom.conf file: [outboundmsg1] exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,5             ; Set Digit Timeout to 5 seconds exten => s,2,ResponseTimeout,10         ; Set Response Timeout to 10 seconds exten => s,3,Answer exten => s,4,Wait(1) exten => s,5,Background(outboundmsgs/msg1)         ; "play outbound msg" exten => s,6,Background(outboundmsgs/how_to_ack)   ; "Press 1 to replay or 2 to acknowledge receiving this message" exten => 1,1,Goto(s,5)   ; replay message exten => 2,1,Goto(msgack,s,1) ; acknowledge message exten => t,1,Playback(vm-goodbye) exten => t,2,Hangup ; at this point we could do something like reschedule the call to try again later ; or send an email saying the msg was not received, ; or ... I DID do a reload on the asterisk console before trying the callout..... I can't get it to call out.

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