asterisk users - Nov 2006 - Out Dial Interface for Asterisk

Hi All,
I sent this a while back but never received any replies. My deadline is fast
approaching so I thought I'd throw it out there again in hope of some
advice. 

I need the ability to automatically out-dial and play a dynamically
generated message. I then need the ability for the answering party to give
feedback via touch tone. 

I am a .Net Programmer and I have looked at the Asterisk.NET examples, but
all I see there is creating calls and sending them to system phones, etc. I
don't see anyway of capturing responses back from the answering party, or
how to play dynamically generated messages. 
Does anyone know if this is possible with the Asterisk.NET interface? 
Or does anyone know of another way to accomplish my needs?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.
--Shawn

Well, as a hopefully helpful pointer:

Shawn Kelley wrote:
> all I see there is creating calls and sending them to system phones, etc. I
I assume by system phone you must mean an internal SIP phone for 
example, like "SIP/110" or something.  Couldn't you replace that
channel
name with "Zap/phonenumber" ?

Moj

have a look at the call files or AMI originate command.

This allows you to generate a call, and specify an extension and context 
to go to when the call has been answered. In there, you can playback any 
file you want to the connected caller. Also, you can then use the IVR 
stuff of asterisk to do the touch tone stuff.

Julian

Shawn Kelley wrote:
> Hi All,
> I sent this a while back but never received any replies. My deadline is
fast
> approaching so I thought I'd throw it out there again in hope of some
> advice. 
> 
> I need the ability to automatically out-dial and play a dynamically
> generated message. I then need the ability for the answering party to give
> feedback via touch tone. 
> 
> I am a .Net Programmer and I have looked at the Asterisk.NET examples, but
> all I see there is creating calls and sending them to system phones, etc. I
> don't see anyway of capturing responses back from the answering party,
or
> how to play dynamically generated messages. 
> Does anyone know if this is possible with the Asterisk.NET interface? 
> Or does anyone know of another way to accomplish my needs?
> 
> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
> --Shawn
> 
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On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:31 -0600, Shawn Kelley wrote:
> Hi All,
> I sent this a while back but never received any replies. My deadline is
fast
> approaching so I thought I'd throw it out there again in hope of some
> advice. 
> 
> I need the ability to automatically out-dial and play a dynamically
> generated message. I then need the ability for the answering party to give
> feedback via touch tone. 
> 
> I am a .Net Programmer and I have looked at the Asterisk.NET examples, but
> all I see there is creating calls and sending them to system phones, etc. I
> don't see anyway of capturing responses back from the answering party,
or
> how to play dynamically generated messages. 
> Does anyone know if this is possible with the Asterisk.NET interface? 
> Or does anyone know of another way to accomplish my needs?
> 
I'd drop a call file into asterisks spool dir:

---- call file begin ---
Channel: Zap/g1/phonenumber
Context: playbackmenu
Extension: main
Priority: 1
---- call file end  ---

in extensions.conf:

[playbackmenu]
exten => main,1,Background(your-announcement)
exten => 1,1,NoOp(User Pressed 1)
exten => 2,1,NoOp(User Pressed 2)
exten => 3,1,NoOp(User Pressed 3)
...


Is that all you need? 


Conrad

Hi..

For generating the calls you can use Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) or If
you dont know about programming you can use CallFiles

And for capturing the reponse you can use AGI/FastAGI in conjunction with
extensions.conf(statically) or Asterisk Realtime (dynamically loaded
extensions from a database).

Regards,

H?ctor.
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