asterisk users - Oct 2004 - AGI comand channel status

I am attempting to place a call in the outgoing spool directory
once that call is placed run my agi. I am using analog cards.

I am attempting to find some reliable call status indication.

I found the command "CHANNEL STATUS" for the agi.
It says is reports busy, remote ring etc...

I tried it and the only status I ever get back is "line up".

Does this command not really work. I am using v1.0.0.

I would expect it to be performing some kind of call analysis
to detect a busy signal or ringing or something other than just
line up.

Thanks,

jerry

Hello,

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:43:01 -0500, Jerry Geis <geisj@pagestation.com>
wrote:
> I am attempting to place a call in the outgoing spool directory
> once that call is placed run my agi. I am using analog cards.
The problem is that there is no reliable call progress on ANALOG
lines. Asterisk just set the channel as ANSWERED or UP as soon as a
call is placed.

You can try enabling callprogress in /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf , but
you might have unreliable progress detection and many false hangups.
The comments on zapata.conf state:

; On trunk interfaces (FXS) it can be useful to attempt to follow the progress
; of a call through RINGING, BUSY, and ANSWERING.   If turned on, call
; progress attempts to determine answer, busy, and ringing on phone lines.
; This feature is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL and can easily detect false answers,
; so don't count on it being very accurate.  Also, it is ONLY configured for
; standard U.S. tones 

You might also want to take a look at application BackgroundDetect, just issue:

show application BackgroundDetect

from the CLI

Good luck,

-- 
Nicol?s Gudi?o
Buenos Aires - Argentina