asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Dynamic extensions without using DynExtenDB?

Hi,
    Am using Asterisk to call peoples phone as part of a service of my website. 
It will call people for various things...one of them to tell people sports
scores.  I am using several sound files to piece together a dynamic message
saying who played and what the score was.  The problem is that I can hardcode
the sound files that are needed to play and it works fine, but I cannot hardcode
the extensions.conf file with the new sound files to play for every game.  I
need a way to create dynamic extensions so when it dials out, it will be playing
back the correct sound files for the current game being played.

    I've looked at the DynExtenDB, but that wont work well because every
time a call is initiated, it loads the extension.  Thats not practical because
if the system needs to call 500 people right at the end of the game, its going
to take too much overhead just to load and unload the extension for every call.

    I am thinking now just to load the extensions through MySQL and have an
"extensions reload" command sent the CLI for Asterisk so my backend
system can update mysql and then reload the extensions on Asterisk when a call
needs to be made with new sport scores.

    I think that idea will work...but does anybody know of a better way to do
it?

P.S.  I know I can reload the extensions by typing "extensions reload"
in the CLI, but is there a command line command I can run that will do it
without having to login?  It will make my scripting job a lot easier if I can
just have a perl scrip run something like system("/usr/sbin/asterisk -r
extensions reload")

Thanks!

Gabe
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On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Gabriel Afana wrote:
>     I've looked at the DynExtenDB, but that wont work well because
every
> time a call is initiated, it loads the extension.  Thats not practical
> because if the system needs to call 500 people right at the end of the
> game, its going to take too much overhead just to load and unload the
> extension for every call.
> 
>     I am thinking now just to load the extensions through MySQL and have
> an "extensions reload" command sent the CLI for Asterisk so my
backend
> system can update mysql and then reload the extensions on Asterisk when
> a call needs to be made with new sport scores.
Have you considered using agi instead of a lot of extensions? Especially 
with fastagi it may be an easier route to go.
> P.S.  I know I can reload the extensions by typing "extensions
reload"
> in the CLI, but is there a command line command I can run that will do
> it without having to login?  It will make my scripting job a lot easier
> if I can just have a perl scrip run something like
> system("/usr/sbin/asterisk -r extensions reload")
asterisk -rx "extensions reload"

Peter

Just upgrade to most recent CVS and use RealTime Extensions. Works fantastic and
is built-in to asterisk core code.

-Matthew
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gabriel Afana 
  To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com 
  Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 3:36 AM
  Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dynamic extensions without using DynExtenDB?


  Hi,
      Am using Asterisk to call peoples phone as part of a service of my
website.  It will call people for various things...one of them to tell people
sports scores.  I am using several sound files to piece together a dynamic
message saying who played and what the score was.  The problem is that I can
hardcode the sound files that are needed to play and it works fine, but I cannot
hardcode the extensions.conf file with the new sound files to play for every
game.  I need a way to create dynamic extensions so when it dials out, it will
be playing back the correct sound files for the current game being played.

      I've looked at the DynExtenDB, but that wont work well because every
time a call is initiated, it loads the extension.  Thats not practical because
if the system needs to call 500 people right at the end of the game, its going
to take too much overhead just to load and unload the extension for every call.

      I am thinking now just to load the extensions through MySQL and have an
"extensions reload" command sent the CLI for Asterisk so my backend
system can update mysql and then reload the extensions on Asterisk when a call
needs to be made with new sport scores.

      I think that idea will work...but does anybody know of a better way to do
it?

  P.S.  I know I can reload the extensions by typing "extensions
reload" in the CLI, but is there a command line command I can run that will
do it without having to login?  It will make my scripting job a lot easier if I
can just have a perl scrip run something like system("/usr/sbin/asterisk -r
extensions reload")

  Thanks!

  Gabe


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