asterisk users - Jul 2023 - Parallel dialoog with different Alert-Info headers

> On 22 Jul 2023, at 23:40, asterisk at phreaknet.org wrote:
> 
> On 7/22/2023 4:51 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>> We have a couple of parallel ring settings (and this has worked well
for eons).
>> 
>> Either in the form of
>> 
>> 	same => n,Dial(SIP/1001 & SIP/1002 & SIP/1003 …..)
>> 
>> Or via a subroutine (below) that has a bit of extra logic:
>> 
>> 	FOO = 1010 & 1019 & 1017 & 1033
>> 	...
>> 	same => n,gosub(sub-callout,s,1,(${FOO},”Ringing all class FOO
telefons"))
>> 
>> Now I have two types of phones (different) era’s that require slightly
different Alert-Info headers.
>> 
>> How can one introduce a layer of indirection at phone (extension) level
that adds those headers ?
> I'm assuming you mean at the device level, and that you want to send
only the relevant header to each device?
> Use pre-dial handlers; a unique handler runs on each destination channel.
With PJSIP, you're forced to do this anyways, but SIPAddHeader adds these to
the calling channel first, which explains the problem you have now.
Aye - problem is - I have some 79XX phones for which I am very reliant on
functionality from https://usecallmanager.nz/documentation-overview.html that is
not in PJSIP.
> How you determine the right header to send on each channel is something you
still need to do. For example, you could detect the user agent in your pre-dial
handler and add the appropriate header. This is a common enough scenario for
things like setting the ring cadence that I wrote an application to handle this
for me.
OK - that is not quite as neat as I had hoped - but perfectly doable. And easy
to wrap.

Thanks,

Dw.
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On 7/23/2023 12:32 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>> On 22 Jul 2023, at 23:40, asterisk at phreaknet.org wrote:
>>
>> I'm assuming you mean at the device level, and that you want to
send
>> only the relevant header to each device?
>> Use pre-dial handlers; a unique handler runs on each destination 
>> channel. With PJSIP, you're forced to do this anyways, but 
>> SIPAddHeader adds these to the calling channel first, which explains 
>> the problem you have now.
>
> Aye - problem is - I have some 79XX phones for which I am very reliant 
> on functionality from 
> https://usecallmanager.nz/documentation-overview.html that is not in 
> PJSIP.
I hear you... you're not the first person that's told me that. It's
one
of the top reasons I hear for staying on chan_sip.
Unfortunately, the author of those patches hasn't expressed interest in 
porting the functionality to PJSIP due to some misconceptions about 
PJSIP development. Some of it I might take a stab at to allow some of my 
users to move over, but not until outstanding patches have cleared; I 
have some of these phones but don't really use them, so it's lower on my
priority list.