asterisk users - Apr 2006 - Remember the incoming context?

Greetings,

Somewhere on my asterisk system, a calls come in in a certain
context, for example, from-sip or from-pstn.

Then the calls gets routed through the dialplan, and a macro gets
called, and another one and then the call needs to be redirected
to another number in the same initial context. And you can use
Dial(Local/number/initialcontext) for that.

Oops, this initial context is lost somewhere on the line.

Unless I'm very mistaken, there is no way to find out what the
original context was, is there?

Edwin

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I thought this was Local/number@context

If the number is unique in your configuration, and the context is 
already included somehow in your default-context, you can just do a 
Local/number, give it a try

Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Somewhere on my asterisk system, a calls come in in a certain
>context, for example, from-sip or from-pstn.
>
>Then the calls gets routed through the dialplan, and a macro gets
>called, and another one and then the call needs to be redirected
>to another number in the same initial context. And you can use
>Dial(Local/number/initialcontext) for that.
>
>Oops, this initial context is lost somewhere on the line.
>
>Unless I'm very mistaken, there is no way to find out what the
>original context was, is there?
>
>Edwin
>
>  
>

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:57:32PM -0700,
asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com wrote:
> If the number is unique in your configuration, and the context is 
> already included somehow in your default-context, you can just do a 
> Local/number, give it a try
The issue is, I don't want it in the default context (which is the
standard one if you omit the @), I want it in the current context.

That way I can be sure that if somebody calls in the from the PSTN
or the internet context, they won't end up calling out again, while
if I'm calling in from one of my phone contextes, I can do the
magic dial(Local/) in my macro, but then require the right context.

Looks like I have to submit a patch!

Edwin

-- 
Edwin Groothuis      |            Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org
edwin@mavetju.org    |          Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/

Hi

Have you tried using something like

Set(ORIGINAL_CHANNEL=from-sip)

in the original channel?

You can then use Dial(Local/number/${ORIGINAL_CHANNEL}).

Regards,

Silviu

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Remember the incoming context?

Greetings,

Somewhere on my asterisk system, a calls come in in a certain context,
for example, from-sip or from-pstn.

Then the calls gets routed through the dialplan, and a macro gets
called, and another one and then the call needs to be redirected to
another number in the same initial context. And you can use
Dial(Local/number/initialcontext) for that.

Oops, this initial context is lost somewhere on the line.

Unless I'm very mistaken, there is no way to find out what the original
context was, is there?

Edwin

-- 
Edwin Groothuis      |            Personal website:
http://www.mavetju.org
edwin@mavetju.org    |          Weblog:
http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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In article <20060418225706.GB1115@k7.mavetju>,
Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Somewhere on my asterisk system, a calls come in in a certain
> context, for example, from-sip or from-pstn.
> 
> Then the calls gets routed through the dialplan, and a macro gets
> called, and another one and then the call needs to be redirected
> to another number in the same initial context. And you can use
> Dial(Local/number/initialcontext) for that.
> 
> Oops, this initial context is lost somewhere on the line.
> 
> Unless I'm very mistaken, there is no way to find out what the
> original context was, is there?
The current context is always available in the channel variable ${CONTEXT},
so the easiest thing would be to save this variable in another at the
correct point, and use the saved copy later:

[from-sip]
exten => _X.,1,Set(INITIALCONTEXT=${CONTEXT})
exten => ... and so on

[from-pstn]
exten => _X.,1,Set(INITIALCONTEXT=${CONTEXT})
exten => ... and so on

[somewhere-else]
.... Dial(Local/${NUMBER}@${INITIALCONTEXT})

Or something like that.

And couldn't you use Goto(${INITIALCONTEXT},${NUMBER},1) instead of
Dial(Local/${NUMBER}@${INITIALCONTEXT}) ?

Cheers
Tony
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>>>>> "EG" == Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
writes:
EG> Looks like I have to submit a patch!

Or just store the original context in a variable?


/Benny