asterisk users - Mar 2006 - Grabbing the billsec and duration after a hangup.

Hello,
 
 I am wondering if someone has got any ideas that can help solve this
 problem.
 
 I have a dial plan that you call into, and depending on certain conditions
 it calls out on a number grabbed from a database.
 
 Something like this :
 
 exten => s,n,Do something
 exten => s,n,Do something else
 exten => s,n,Dial(ZAP/g1/${OUTBOUND},${timeout})
 
 I need to log the time the person was connected to $(OUTBOUND) , these are
 duration and billsec in the CDR's
 
 So at hangup I do something like this.
 
 exten => h,1,DeadAGI(cdr-
 outlogger.php|${CDR(start)}|${OUTBOUND}|${CDR(channel)}|${CDR(duration)}|$
 {CDR(billsec)}|${CDR(disposition)}|${CDR(accountcode)})
 
 Trouble is duration and billsec are *ALWAYS* 0 (zero), as if they have not
 been loaded with the values, even though the channel is hung up.
 
 Anyone got any ideas on how I can access ${CDR(duration)} and
 ${CDR(billsec)} in the hangup extension?
 
 Thanks, hope I explained that well enough.
 
 Mark

The reason for it being 0 is because as long as you sit on the h
extension the call is not yet done, therefore asterisk has no clue
what those valuse are. If you use the h extension then you are messing
up the CDR.

On 3/20/06, Mark Ackroyd <mark.ackroyd@cencion.com>
wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I am wondering if someone has got any ideas that can help solve this
>  problem.
>
>  I have a dial plan that you call into, and depending on certain conditions
>  it calls out on a number grabbed from a database.
>
>  Something like this :
>
>  exten => s,n,Do something
>  exten => s,n,Do something else
>  exten => s,n,Dial(ZAP/g1/${OUTBOUND},${timeout})
>
>  I need to log the time the person was connected to $(OUTBOUND) , these are
>  duration and billsec in the CDR's
>
>  So at hangup I do something like this.
>
>  exten => h,1,DeadAGI(cdr-
>  outlogger.php|${CDR(start)}|${OUTBOUND}|${CDR(channel)}|${CDR(duration)}|$
>  {CDR(billsec)}|${CDR(disposition)}|${CDR(accountcode)})
>
>  Trouble is duration and billsec are *ALWAYS* 0 (zero), as if they have not
>  been loaded with the values, even though the channel is hung up.
>
>  Anyone got any ideas on how I can access ${CDR(duration)} and
>  ${CDR(billsec)} in the hangup extension?
>
>  Thanks, hope I explained that well enough.
>
>  Mark
>
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>>The reason for it being 0 is because as long as you sit on the h
>>extension the call is not yet done, therefore asterisk has no clue
>>what those valuse are. If you use the h extension then you are messing
>>up the CDR.
So how can I tell it the call is complete and give the CDR values? Is it
just not possible?

Mark

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I have a perl app that listens for hangups and then grabs the call out
of the database using the uniqueid.  Maybe not the neatest way but it
works well.

Darren Wiebe
darren@aleph-com.net

Mark Ackroyd wrote:
>>> The reason for it being 0 is because as long as you sit on the
>>> h extension the call is not yet done, therefore asterisk has no
>>> clue what those valuse are. If you use the h extension then you
>>> are messing up the CDR.
>
>
> So how can I tell it the call is complete and give the CDR values?
> Is it just not possible?
>
> Mark
>
>
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