3 thoughts on - Dial Out With Channel Variable; Sub-string Usage

• You put them in the context for your clients… From what you show below, I’d say they go in the “local_200” context. You can verify this by looking in sip.conf, in the section that starts with [200], find the line that starts with “context=”. It’s probably
  “context=local_200”. Then you put the outbound dialplan in that context in extensions.conf. Mind you, then 200 is the only phone that can dial out. 201 can only dial 200 and nothing else.

  One suggestion… those 8 lines are redundant. The first 4 let you dial out without the 9 in front, and the last 4 need you to dial 9 to get out. You should probably decide which way you want to do it, and use only 4 of the lines instead of 8. Keep it simple. Also, if you don’t use 7-digit dialing in your area, you can drop the second line
  (_Nxxxxxx) and only have 3.

  Mind you, even if your local area supports 7-digit dialing, I’m guessing babytel doesn’t, so it wouldn’t even work like that. You would have to add your area code (or 1 and your area code) after the slash between ${BABY} and ${EXTEN}, just on that one line.

  That’s a different syntax for the same thing. These three lines all do the same thing:

  exten => _9x.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:1}@babytel_out)

  and

  exten => _9x.,1,Dial(SIP/babytel_out/${EXTEN:1})

  and

  exten => _9x.,1,Dial(${BABY}/${EXTEN:1})

  The ${EXTEN:1} strips off the “9” at the front of EXTEN, because babytel doesn’t want to get the 9 that you dial on the phone. If you go with dialing without the 9, you’ll use ${EXTEN}, not ${EXTEN:1}.

• Wait a minute, slow down. I re-installed, same sort of problem:

  vici:~ #
  vici:~ # asterisk -rx “sip show peers”
  Name/username Host Dyn Forcerport ACL Port Status
  300/300 (Unspecified) D N 0 UNKNOWN
  301/301 192.168.0.24 D N 5060 OK (29
  ms)
  302/302 (Unspecified) D N 0 UNKNOWN
  gs102/gs102 (Unspecified) D N 0 UNKNOWN
  testcarrier/19876543210 198.38.7.34
  N 5065 OK (82 ms)
  5 sip peers [Monitored: 2 online, 3 offline Unmonitored: 0 online, 0
  offline]
  vici:~ #
  vici:~ # asterisk -rx “sip show peer testcarrier”

  * Name : testcarrier
  Secret :
  MD5Secret :
  Remote Secret:
  Context : default

  I simply want “all” outbound calls to go through a specific context, I
  think, if I understand how the channel passes control to the correct context. I want, or need, an “outbound” context?

  I know that the text has an example of ServerA routing through serverB.
  Simply add a line, like:

  exten => _9x.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:1}@babytel_out)

  or

  exten => _9x.,1,Dial(${BABY}/${EXTEN:1})

  Which just brings me back to…the context for BABY…is…? BABY is a channel variable. In the above CLI output, the channel variable is testcarrier, which has a context of “default”.

  Each channel variable maps to at most one context? Many channel variables can map to a single context?

  thanks,

  Thufir

• BABY appears to be a global variable in your example.

  In your CLI output testcarrier is a peer, It’s not a variable at all.

  The context field for your peer testcarrier is where incoming calls from testcarrirer will be routed to.

  Here is some example dialplan showing how you can use one context
  ‘trunk1-out’ to dial out through your trunk

  [trunk1-out]
  exten => _[0-9a-zA-Z].,1,Verbose(Dialing out TRUNK1)
  same => n,Set(CHANNEL(amaflags)=BILLING)
  same => n,Dial(PJSIP/${EXTEN}@trunk1,60,o)
  same => n,Log(ERROR,Dial to ${EXTEN} ended – DIALSTATUS is ${DIALSTATUS} –
  HANGUPCAUSE is ${HANGUPCAUSE})
  same => n,Playtones(busy)
  same => n,Busy(8)
  same => n,Hangup()

  [pstn-local]
  exten => _976XXXX,1,Macro(fastbusy)
  exten => _nxxxxxx,1,Goto(trunk1-out,${EXTEN},1)

  [toll-free]
  exten => _1855NXXXXXX,1,Goto(trunk1-out,${EXTEN},1)
  exten => _1866NXXXXXX,1,Goto(trunk1-out,${EXTEN},1)
  exten => _1877NXXXXXX,1,Goto(trunk1-out,${EXTEN},1)
  exten => _1888NXXXXXX,1,Goto(trunk1-out,${EXTEN},1)
  exten => _1800NXXXXXX,1,Goto(trunk1-out,${EXTEN},1)

  [long-distance]
  exten =>
  _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Authenticate(/etc/asterisk//ldcodes.txt,a,KINISTON-001-)
  same => n,Goto(trunk1-out,${EXTEN},1)

  Then your internal phone context would include the above contexts:

  [internal-phones]
  include => pstn-local include => toll-free include => long-distance

  Does that help make it clearer Thufir?

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