Hi, Can someone explain to me how ATAs operate in a call shop type environment to provide realtime billing to the callshop software. The ATAs seem to be configured to connect directly to the asterisk server, so how does the call shop software report in realtime your destination and duration of the answered call? Thank you, AC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090910/f9ad40e3/attachment.htm
Matt Riddell
2009-Sep-11 05:22 UTC
[asterisk-users] Operation of ATAs in a call shop type set-up
On 11/09/09 7:25 AM, AC wrote:> Hi, > > Can someone explain to me how ATAs operate in a call shop type > environment to provide realtime billing to the callshop software. The > ATAs seem to be configured to connect directly to the asterisk server, > so how does the call shop software report in realtime your destination > and duration of the answered call?Either from CDR or the Asterisk Manager. We wrote an application about 3 years ago to do this via the Manager, listing current channels, updating a Windows C# application for the manager, and disconnecting calls if someone didn't ask the manager for more time. We actually used the SendText function to print a message on the screen of the phone showing the remaining credit (and wrote a patch for Asterisk so you could do this from the manager - included in 1.2 if I remember correctly). -- Cheers, Matt Riddell Director _______________________________________________ http://www.venturevoip.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News) http://www.venturevoip.com/st.php (SmoothTorque Predictive Dialer) http://www.venturevoip.com/c3.php (ConduIT3 PABX Systems)