Re: [Asterisk-java-users] Keeping AgiCahnnel alive for a long time.

[Murthy G. <mga...@nt...>]

Hi Artur

 

We faced a similar situation and successfully handled with the channel
variable TIMEOUT(absolute). 

 

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+AbsoluteTimeout

 

Hope this helps

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From: Artur Tamazyan [mailto:ar...@ca...] 
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:40 AM
To: ast...@li...
Subject: [Asterisk-java-users] Keeping AgiCahnnel alive for a long time.

 

Hi guys,

 

In our application we want to be able to send commands to a specific
asterisk channel during a long period of time. It's a long-lasting call
that we want to manipulate (may last for few hours). 

 

One of ways of approaching it was to make an AGI call from asterisk
which will create an AgiScript that will hold an AgiChannel instance
that we'll use to send our commands.

I know that the channel is closed once AgiScript#serve() method is
finished. As a workaround we pause the serve()'s thread to keep
AgiChannel open as long as we need. Should we look out for any timeouts
that will eventually close the channel automatically? Do we need to send
at least NoOp periodiacally to keep it open?

 

Overall this doesn't look like a good solution anyway  so I want to ask
if we have any other options to achieve our goal? 

 

I can provide more info or code if needed.