asterisk users - Jan 2008 - State of the application chan_spy

Hi all,

I read on serveral pages that chan_spy is not part of asterisk anymore
as on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+ChanSpy on the bottom
of this page.

I have a testing server with debian-testing and debian packages for
asterisk installed. In the modules directory /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
is a app_chanspy.so already there. The currently installed version is
1.4.13.

So, it is usefull to use app_chanspy.so for an asterisk for a
callcenter? Which application does now the same for recording/spiing
channels from a third person?

Many thanks in advance.

Jan


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Jan-Hendrik Palic
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On 1/14/08, Jan-Hendrik Palic <jpalic at tng.de>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I read on serveral pages that chan_spy is not part of asterisk anymore
> as on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+ChanSpy on the bottom
> of this page.
>
> I have a testing server with debian-testing and debian packages for
> asterisk installed. In the modules directory /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
> is a app_chanspy.so already there. The currently installed version is
> 1.4.13.
>
> So, it is usefull to use app_chanspy.so for an asterisk for a
> callcenter? Which application does now the same for recording/spiing
> channels from a third person?
Well, it is bundled in asterisk. If you pay more attention, it shows:
    *  As of october 19 2004, ChanSpy is not included in the standard
Asterisk distribution or the development CVS tree.
    * As of March 22 2005 this bug was reopened and can be viewed at above link.
    * On March 24 2005 ChanSpy was added into CVS HEAD

Btw, from my experience - use of chanspy often leads to asterisk
crash. There's a new implementation of it - by using audiohooks (
http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/team/file/audiohooks-1.4/ ),
however it's just being tested for 1.4, and probably will be available
only in 1.6.

Regards,
Atis

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