[asterisk-users] Alternative to Local channel

Federico
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 03:37:38 -0000

It's a great idea but it doesn't work.
Maybe this should be the way that works.


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Wieling <ewieling at nyigc.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2023 3:43 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users
at lists.digium.com>; Federico <federico at digitalipvoice.com>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Alternative to Local channel

You can't set the variable in globals?  I don't know if functions work
in globals, but it is worth a try.

[globals]
LSESSION=${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)}

On 8/16/23 20:39, Federico wrote:
> I used to use the local channel to create a global variable
>
> (dialplan)
>
> [default]
>
> exten => s,1,Set(GLOBAL(LSESSION)=${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y-%m-%d
> %H:%M:%S)})
>
> to that end, I modified cli.conf
>
> [startup_commands]
>
> originate local/s extension s at default = yes
>
> But now I upgraded to Asterisk18 and there is no longer a local
> channels
>
> Does anybody have any idea of a workaround?
>
>

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