asterisk users - May 2007 - OT - robo dialer

Can anyone suggest a source for a free robot dialer or examples? I need to
do some non-commercial auto dialing using Asterisk. Simple phone numbers
in a file, line by line format.

I found one called AstAutoDiaker but I was not able to get it to work and
it appears to not be supported - no email response from author.


Doug

Hi Doug,
> Can anyone suggest a source for a free robot dialer or examples? I need to
> do some non-commercial auto dialing using Asterisk. Simple phone numbers
> in a file, line by line format.
> 
> I found one called AstAutoDiaker but I was not able to get it to work and
> it appears to not be supported - no email response from author.
If you are comfortable with Perl (programming language), or have
access to somebody who is, you could get something working with the
CPAN module Net::SIP ..
  http://search.cpan.org/~sullr/Net-SIP-0.26/

Amongst other things, it can be a 'phone' with the module
Net::SIP::Endpoint. 
  http://search.cpan.org/~sullr/Net-SIP-0.26/lib/Net/SIP/Endpoint.pod

I havn't used it myself as yet but intend to in the next few months.
If your requirements are for unattended dialling then you might find
this option more flexible since you can make it do exactly what you
want.

Good luck with it anyhow! :)

Regards,

Chris Bennett

Am Freitag, den 04.05.2007, 00:48 -0400 schrieb Doug
Crompton:
> Can anyone suggest a source for a free robot dialer or examples? I need to
> do some non-commercial auto dialing using Asterisk. Simple phone numbers
> in a file, line by line format.
> 
> I found one called AstAutoDiaker but I was not able to get it to work and
> it appears to not be supported - no email response from author.
Depending on what is required to happen on that call, you might get away
with some simple scripting and .call files. Along the lines of...

#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<STDIN>) {
	$phonenumber = $_;
	$callfilecontent = "Read the
docs.\n".$phonenumber."Text\n";
	
	# Write that stuff to a file on the same physical partition
	# as your callfile directory, give it the time stamp of
	# the time it is intended to be run, and move it over.
}

... and piping the phonenumbers into the script through stdin.

Of course your dialplan would have to accomodate for the "local" end,
such that the callee will get some entertainment (announcement,
whatever).

BR
Anselm