asterisk users - Jul 2023 - Parallel dialoog with different Alert-Info headers

On 7/22/2023 4:51 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> We have a couple of parallel ring settings (and this has worked well for
eons).
>
> Either in the form of
>
> 	same => n,Dial(SIP/1001 & SIP/1002 & SIP/1003 …..)
>
> Or via a subroutine (below) that has a bit of extra logic:
>
> 	FOO = 1010 & 1019 & 1017 & 1033
> 	...
> 	same => n,gosub(sub-callout,s,1,(${FOO},”Ringing all class FOO
telefons"))
>
> Now I have two types of phones (different) era’s that require slightly
different Alert-Info headers.
>
> How can one introduce a layer of indirection at phone (extension) level
that adds those headers ?
I'm assuming you mean at the device level, and that you want to send 
only the relevant header to each device?
Use pre-dial handlers; a unique handler runs on each destination 
channel. With PJSIP, you're forced to do this anyways, but SIPAddHeader 
adds these to the calling channel first, which explains the problem you 
have now.

How you determine the right header to send on each channel is something 
you still need to do. For example, you could detect the user agent in 
your pre-dial handler and add the appropriate header. This is a common 
enough scenario for things like setting the ring cadence that I wrote an 
application to handle this for me.

> On 22 Jul 2023, at 23:40, asterisk at phreaknet.org wrote:
> 
> On 7/22/2023 4:51 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>> We have a couple of parallel ring settings (and this has worked well
for eons).
>> 
>> Either in the form of
>> 
>> 	same => n,Dial(SIP/1001 & SIP/1002 & SIP/1003 …..)
>> 
>> Or via a subroutine (below) that has a bit of extra logic:
>> 
>> 	FOO = 1010 & 1019 & 1017 & 1033
>> 	...
>> 	same => n,gosub(sub-callout,s,1,(${FOO},”Ringing all class FOO
telefons"))
>> 
>> Now I have two types of phones (different) era’s that require slightly
different Alert-Info headers.
>> 
>> How can one introduce a layer of indirection at phone (extension) level
that adds those headers ?
> I'm assuming you mean at the device level, and that you want to send
only the relevant header to each device?
> Use pre-dial handlers; a unique handler runs on each destination channel.
With PJSIP, you're forced to do this anyways, but SIPAddHeader adds these to
the calling channel first, which explains the problem you have now.
Aye - problem is - I have some 79XX phones for which I am very reliant on
functionality from https://usecallmanager.nz/documentation-overview.html that is
not in PJSIP.
> How you determine the right header to send on each channel is something you
still need to do. For example, you could detect the user agent in your pre-dial
handler and add the appropriate header. This is a common enough scenario for
things like setting the ring cadence that I wrote an application to handle this
for me.
OK - that is not quite as neat as I had hoped - but perfectly doable. And easy
to wrap.

Thanks,

Dw.
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