Thread: RE: [Asterisk-java-users] originate call without picking up the fone?!

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Perhaps a little explanation will help you here as I think you might have a
slight misunderstanding of what is happening.

When you 'originate' a call using the asterisk manager, you are sending an
'originate action' request to the asterisk server, when answered, control is
passed to the server, falling through the extensions that you have in the
context that you specified in the originate action... at this point you can
parse events that asterisk sends out to your manager instance, or read
responses that your manager get's in response to other actions (there are
also 'event generating actions').  you have to parse the channel variable in
the event to know which channel the event is for in your event handler code.

It sounds like you want to originate call_A using originateAciton in
Manager, and then, if answered and not busy, use dial() in entensions to
connect to the end user, so when they pickup, they're already connected.

I have a multi-threaded app which picks up calls from a database of
scheduled calls and originates them.  up to three numbers are used, so my
app remains in contol, and releases it when I know that the call has been
answered and accepted.  I know it has been accepted because I set a channel
variable accepted=yes in the extension and then read it with a
manageraction.  you have to know the channel to read it's variables... in my
case i didn't know from the origination since I'm using IAX and the channel
i requested doesn't equal the actual channel used... so in the first
priority for the extension, I set a global named by the phone number I sent
in the originate action, and the value is the channel... then I can use the
channel and go from there.

hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: ast...@li...
[mailto:ast...@li...]On Behalf Of
Arnd Vehling
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:31 PM
To: Ast...@li...
Subject: [Asterisk-java-users] originate call without picking up the
fone?!

Hi There,

we are developing a dialer application using the java lib
to interface with the asterisk manager protocol. It works
fine so far. The only problem we have is that if we use
the "originate" command the user is required to pick up
the fone _before_ asterisk will originate the call to
the desired destination.

What we would like to do is to place the call, check if
the other end is available (ringing event) and only then
let the user pickup the fone. Otherwise we would only display
a text message "Destination 'Busy' etc.

Does anyone know if/how this is possible?

cheers,

   Arnd

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