Hi folks, I've been playing around with an Asterisk server in my office for a few weeks now, and I've got it pretty much nailed down the way I want it, which is nice. One of the features I'm using is the ability to switch different contexts in & out of the dialplan on a schedule. So, for example, I've got the "official" tel number ringing my desk phone between 9.00-17.30 mon-fri; and out of those hours any caller gets a recorded message + sent to voicemail. However, I'm quite often working later than 17.30, and would quite like to be able to easily "flick a switch" which tells Asterisk that, actually, I'm here in the office, and I'd quite like to receive calls. Currently, I have to alter dialplans.conf, comment out a couple of lines & uncomment another; save & then re-load the dialplan. I'm guessing I've got 3 options open to me: 1) Convert from using the various .conf files, to using a "realtime" config, then write a small front-end to the DB so I can access the settings from a simple switch on my Windows desktop 2) Write some kind of script which I can execute on the Asterisk box which makes the same changes I'm currently making manually 3) Some other option I've not thought of... What's the panel's opinion on the best way to do this? For info: Asterisk 1.4.5 running on Ubuntu 7.04 Digium-compatible AX100P card providing connection to POTS line (this is the one that needs controlling) 2 SIP extensions (Grandstream GXP2000) Numerous SIPGATE lines (these are configured as I like them already) Much appreciated in advance. Cheers, Ade. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.33/1034 - Release Date: 27/09/2007 17:00
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:28:21PM +0100, Ade Vickers wrote:> Hi folks, > > I've been playing around with an Asterisk server in my office for a few > weeks now, and I've got it pretty much nailed down the way I want it, which > is nice. > > One of the features I'm using is the ability to switch different contexts in > & out of the dialplan on a schedule. So, for example, I've got the > "official" tel number ringing my desk phone between 9.00-17.30 mon-fri; and > out of those hours any caller gets a recorded message + sent to voicemail. > > However, I'm quite often working later than 17.30, and would quite like to > be able to easily "flick a switch" which tells Asterisk that, actually, I'm > here in the office, and I'd quite like to receive calls. Currently, I have > to alter dialplans.conf, comment out a couple of lines & uncomment another; > save & then re-load the dialplan. > > I'm guessing I've got 3 options open to me: > > 1) Convert from using the various .conf files, to using a "realtime" config, > then write a small front-end to the DB so I can access the settings from a > simple switch on my Windows desktop > 2) Write some kind of script which I can execute on the Asterisk box which > makes the same changes I'm currently making manually > 3) Some other option I've not thought of...Read the relevant data from a global varaible or from the database in the dialplan. You can set db entries and/or global variables in various ways. 4) Use a condional dialplan. e.g GotoIfTime or other uses of GotoIf . In fact, GotoIfTime seems to be the exact "switch flipper" you need. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir
Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC
2007-Sep-28 17:44 UTC
[asterisk-users] Changing contexts "on the fly"
Another option to you might just be easier. Does your PBX ring your
desk phone for a while and then move on to IVR/auto-attendant? If it
already does, do you have a DoNotDisturb button on your phone? That's
pretty straightforward.
The way we do the switch thing is as follows:
exten => *6,1,GotoIf($["${DB(night/enabled)}" =
"1"]?2:102)
exten => *6,2,Set(oldval=${DB_DELETE(night/enabled)})
exten => *6,3,System(rm /home/pbx/night_mode)
exten => *6,4,Playback(hcllc-nightmode-off)
exten => *6,5,Hangup
exten => *6,102,Set(DB(night/enabled)="1")
exten => *6,103,System(touch /home/pbx/night_mode)
exten => *6,104,Playback(hcllc-nightmode-on)
exten => *6,105,Hangup
Then, in my incoming from PSTN context, I check like this:
...
exten => s,6,GotoIf($["${DB(night/enabled)}" =
"1"]?7:107)
exten => s,7,Goto(attendant-closed,s,1)
exten => s,107,Dial(${RECEPTIONIST},15,tw)
exten => s,108,Dial(${RECEPTIONIST_AND_MOJO},10,tw)
exten => s,109,Goto(attendant-open,s,1)
*6 is for *N, for people to remember (N)ight mode. In my *6 extension,
I create a mutex in a sense, the file called 'night_mode' in /home/pbx
-- this lets me determine if night mode is enabled via external systems,
like those written in PHP for a webpage or something else for a shell
script, maybe as a cron schedule that rings your desk to remind you that
night mode is still on... It is not needed for my incoming context;
that context uses the astdb.
Mojo
Ade Vickers wrote:> Hi folks,
>
> I've been playing around with an Asterisk server in my office for a few
> weeks now, and I've got it pretty much nailed down the way I want it,
which
> is nice.
>
> One of the features I'm using is the ability to switch different
contexts in
> & out of the dialplan on a schedule. So, for example, I've got the
> "official" tel number ringing my desk phone between 9.00-17.30
mon-fri; and
> out of those hours any caller gets a recorded message + sent to voicemail.
>
> However, I'm quite often working later than 17.30, and would quite like
to
> be able to easily "flick a switch" which tells Asterisk that,
actually, I'm
> here in the office, and I'd quite like to receive calls. Currently, I
have
> to alter dialplans.conf, comment out a couple of lines & uncomment
another;
> save & then re-load the dialplan.
>
> I'm guessing I've got 3 options open to me:
>
> 1) Convert from using the various .conf files, to using a
"realtime" config,
> then write a small front-end to the DB so I can access the settings from a
> simple switch on my Windows desktop
> 2) Write some kind of script which I can execute on the Asterisk box which
> makes the same changes I'm currently making manually
> 3) Some other option I've not thought of...
>
>
> What's the panel's opinion on the best way to do this?
>
>
> For info:
> Asterisk 1.4.5 running on Ubuntu 7.04
> Digium-compatible AX100P card providing connection to POTS line
> (this is the one that needs controlling)
> 2 SIP extensions (Grandstream GXP2000)
> Numerous SIPGATE lines (these are configured as I like them already)
>
>
> Much appreciated in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Ade.
>
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.33/1034 - Release Date:
27/09/2007
> 17:00
>
>
>
>
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