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sjmudd at pobox.com
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 Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] macros for performing repeated dialplan a |
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Hi again,
I'm trying to build up a soho dialplan to replicate an existing Asterisk
setup I want to replace.
I'm editing
/usr/local/freeswitch/conf/dialplan/default/00_mydomain.com.xml to add
some dialplan rules for various destination numbers I'm using. These
dialplans may use one of several gateways I have configured.
I currently have:
<include>
<extension name="spanish_mobiles.mydomain.com">
<condition field="destination_number" expression="^(6\d{8})$">
<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=${outbound_caller_id_number}"/>
<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_name=${outbound_caller_id_name}"/>
<action application="bridge" data="sofia/gateway/asterisk/$1"/>
</condition>
</extension>
<extension name="spanish_fijos.mydomain.com">
<condition field="destination_number" expression="^(9\d{8})$">
<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=${outbound_caller_id_number}"/>
<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_name=${outbound_caller_id_name}"/>
<action application="bridge" data="sofia/gateway/asterisk/$1"/>
</condition>
</extension>
... more stuff not shown ...
</include>
Which routes out to my existing asterisk installation.
I now want to record all calls. Looking at
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_record_session
it seems I need to add a section like into each entry prior to the
application="bridge".
<action application="set" data="gateway_name=XXXXX"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_TITLE=Recording ${destination_number} ${caller_id_number} ${strftime(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M)}"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_COPYRIGHT=(C) 2009 my data here."/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_SOFTWARE=FreeSwitch"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_ARTIST=My name"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_COMMENT=My comment"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_DATE=${strftime(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M)}"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_STEREO=true"/>
<action application="record_session" data="$${base_dir}/recordings/${gateway_name}_${strftime(%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)}_${destination_number}_${caller_id_number}.wav"/>
My question is how do I avoid repeatedly using these same 8-9 lines and
"merge" this into some macro which given the right parameters allows me
to define various extensions using different gateways but all configured
"the same way"?
Thanks for any pointers to how this should be done.
Simon
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msc at freeswitch.org
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] macros for performing repeated dialplan a |
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com (sjmudd@pobox.com)> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi again,
I'm trying to build up a soho dialplan to replicate an existing Asterisk
setup I want to replace.
I'm editing
/usr/local/freeswitch/conf/dialplan/default/00_mydomain.com.xml to add
some dialplan rules for various destination numbers I'm using. These
dialplans may use one of several gateways I have configured.
I currently have:
<include>
<extension name="spanish_mobiles.mydomain.com">
<condition field="destination_number" expression="^(6\d{8})$">
<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=${outbound_caller_id_number}"/>
<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_name=${outbound_caller_id_name}"/>
<action application="bridge" data="sofia/gateway/asterisk/$1"/>
</condition>
</extension>
<extension name="spanish_fijos.mydomain.com">
<condition field="destination_number" expression="^(9\d{8})$">
<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=${outbound_caller_id_number}"/>
<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_name=${outbound_caller_id_name}"/>
<action application="bridge" data="sofia/gateway/asterisk/$1"/>
</condition>
</extension>
... more stuff not shown ...
</include>
Which routes out to my existing asterisk installation.
I now want to record all calls. Looking at
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_record_session
it seems I need to add a section like into each entry prior to the
application="bridge".
<action application="set" data="gateway_name=XXXXX"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_TITLE=Recording ${destination_number} ${caller_id_number} ${strftime(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M)}"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_COPYRIGHT=(C) 2009 my data here."/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_SOFTWARE=FreeSwitch"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_ARTIST=My name"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_COMMENT=My comment"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_DATE=${strftime(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M)}"/>
<action application="set" data="RECORD_STEREO=true"/>
<action application="record_session" data="$${base_dir}/recordings/${gateway_name}_${strftime(%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)}_${destination_number}_${caller_id_number}.wav"/>
My question is how do I avoid repeatedly using these same 8-9 lines and
"merge" this into some macro which given the right parameters allows me
to define various extensions using different gateways but all configured
"the same way"?
Thanks for any pointers to how this should be done.
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Try using the execute_extension app. It's kinda like a gosub in BASIC: it'll go and execute an extension and then come back and continue executing. Put all those lines into a single extension and then call them from other extensions via execute_extension.
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sjmudd at pobox.com
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:18 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] macros for performing repeated dialplan a |
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Hi Michael,
msc@freeswitch.org (Michael Collins) writes:
| Quote: | On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I'm trying to build up a soho dialplan to replicate an existing Asterisk
setup I want to replace.
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| Quote: | | Quote: | My question is how do I avoid repeatedly using these same 8-9 lines and
"merge" this into some macro which given the right parameters allows me
to define various extensions using different gateways but all configured
"the same way"?
Thanks for any pointers to how this should be done.
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Try using the execute_extension app. It's kinda like a gosub in BASIC: it'll
go and execute an extension and then come back and continue executing. Put
all those lines into a single extension and then call them from other
extensions via execute_extension.
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OK. That looks clear. However it doesn't look as if it's possible to
pass parameters this way which means that data can only be passed to
the "extension" via variables. That works but isn't so clean. I'll
check this out further shortly. I'm planning later to pass info like
"which gateway to talk to" and perhaps some sort of flag which
indicates "record: yes/no", and even include the bridge application
into this extension/macro. That reduces the original dialplan pattern
matching to a much simpler and easier to configure setup for me.
excecute_extension does avoid a lot of redundancy, so thanks for the
pointer. I'll get that working first.
Simon
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chad at apartmentlines...
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] macros for performing repeated dialplan a |
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On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Simon J Mudd wrote:
| Quote: | OK. That looks clear. However it doesn't look as if it's possible to
pass parameters this way which means that data can only be passed to
the "extension" via variables. That works but isn't so clean. I'll
check this out further shortly. I'm planning later to pass info like
"which gateway to talk to" and perhaps some sort of flag which
indicates "record: yes/no", and even include the bridge application
into this extension/macro. That reduces the original dialplan pattern
matching to a much simpler and easier to configure setup for me.
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here's a tip from a recovering asterisk user: don't feel like you have
to do everything via the dialplan. this was a constant mantra in
asterisk, because calling AGI scripts was expensive. this is not the
case with FreeSWITCH. the general rule of thumb is: as soon as it
gets hard to do in the dialplan, farm it out to a script. it's the
way FreeSWITCH is designed, so don't fight it 
that said, you still might be able to use execute_extension along with
setting some channel variables before you call it. those channel
variables will be available in the executed extension, and can act
pretty much like the arguments to a macro.
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sjmudd at pobox.com
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:52 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] macros for performing repeated dialplan a |
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chad@apartmentlines.com (Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines) writes:
| Quote: | On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Simon J Mudd wrote:
| Quote: | OK. That looks clear. However it doesn't look as if it's possible to
pass parameters this way which means that data can only be passed to
the "extension" via variables. That works but isn't so clean. I'll
check this out further shortly. I'm planning later to pass info like
"which gateway to talk to" and perhaps some sort of flag which
indicates "record: yes/no", and even include the bridge application
into this extension/macro. That reduces the original dialplan pattern
matching to a much simpler and easier to configure setup for me.
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here's a tip from a recovering asterisk user: don't feel like you have
to do everything via the dialplan. this was a constant mantra in
asterisk, because calling AGI scripts was expensive. this is not the
case with FreeSWITCH. the general rule of thumb is: as soon as it
gets hard to do in the dialplan, farm it out to a script. it's the
way FreeSWITCH is designed, so don't fight it
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OK. That makes a lot of sense. Perhaps I'm just missing examples to copy
which do some of the things I want to do.
Since there are indications on this list that FreeSWITCH can do many
things the changeover from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH is quite difficult
at least once you start to try and do more complex things.
I've other plans like:
1. choose the cheapest gateway based on some scripts which download
rates from the various gateways web pages and let me compare rates.
Hard partly as the "charges pages" aren't designed to allow me to
match a number to a charge. Shame the VoIP community can't come up
with a common format "charge/rate file" to make this easier.
2. Try one gateway and if that fails try another one. Many of the
gateways I've been using are low cost and don't always work, so to
avoid me having to adjust things each time this might be useful.
3. Remove a lot of the "intelligence" about what to do to a backend
script/program or whatever which decides how to route calls and tells
FreeSWITCH what it decides. This may not scale for a large setup but
for SOHO is never going to be an issue. It also avoids me writing so
many xml configuration files which seems to get spread all over
various places of the conf/ tree.
However I've still got a lot of experimenting to do yet.
Simon
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rupa at rupa.com
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:29 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] macros for performing repeated dialplan a |
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On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I've other plans like:
1. choose the cheapest gateway based on some scripts which download
rates from the various gateways web pages and let me compare rates.
Hard partly as the "charges pages" aren't designed to allow me to
match a number to a charge. Shame the VoIP community can't come up
with a common format "charge/rate file" to make this easier.
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Look at mod_lcr. The only part you have to write is the part that
loads the database from your providers.
| Quote: | 2. Try one gateway and if that fails try another one. Many of the
gateways I've been using are low cost and don't always work, so to
avoid me having to adjust things each time this might be useful.
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bridge to ${lcr_auto_route} after calling the lcr application.
| Quote: | 3. Remove a lot of the "intelligence" about what to do to a backend
script/program or whatever which decides how to route calls and tells
FreeSWITCH what it decides. This may not scale for a large setup but
for SOHO is never going to be an issue. It also avoids me writing so
many xml configuration files which seems to get spread all over
various places of the conf/ tree.
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This is for incoming calls to your DIDs? Or something else? I'm not
sure what you mean here.
| Quote: | However I've still got a lot of experimenting to do yet.
Simon
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sjmudd at pobox.com
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] macros for performing repeated dialplan a |
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rupa@rupa.com (Rupa Schomaker) writes:
| Quote: | On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I've other plans like:
1. choose the cheapest gateway based on some scripts which download
rates from the various gateways web pages and let me compare rates.
Hard partly as the "charges pages" aren't designed to allow me to
match a number to a charge. Shame the VoIP community can't come up
with a common format "charge/rate file" to make this easier.
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Look at mod_lcr. The only part you have to write is the part that
loads the database from your providers.
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Sounds good. Thanks for the pointer.
| Quote: | | Quote: | 2. Try one gateway and if that fails try another one. Many of the
gateways I've been using are low cost and don't always work, so to
avoid me having to adjust things each time this might be useful.
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bridge to ${lcr_auto_route} after calling the lcr application.
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You make it sound easy in FreeSWITCH. 
| Quote: | | Quote: | 3. Remove a lot of the "intelligence" about what to do to a backend
script/program or whatever which decides how to route calls and tells
FreeSWITCH what it decides. This may not scale for a large setup but
for SOHO is never going to be an issue. It also avoids me writing so
many xml configuration files which seems to get spread all over
various places of the conf/ tree.
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This is for incoming calls to your DIDs? Or something else? I'm not
sure what you mean here.
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Well it seems/ed that the dialplan actions and xml files get complex
if you want to do anything complicated. however it seems that I'm
doing things the wrong way and perhaps that's part of the problem.
I'll look at the mod_lcr and see how it works.
Thanks for the pointers.
Simon
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