[App_rpt-users] Connect notifications via AGI or System scripts

[Keith Williamson]

Thanks for the lead, Steve. I'll check that out.

Cheers,

Keith
KF7DRV

On 1/29/10, Stephen Rodgers <sales at qrvc.com> wrote:
> Keith Williamson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently, I got reverse autopatch configured on my simplex node (2541) and
>> everything works great. In the shack, I have a Polycom IP501 speaker phone
>> that I use to monitor or connect into QSO's on the node. Out of the shack,
>> I
>> can call into the node using my Blackberry and do the same. So the next
>> challenge is to get quick notifications of users connecting into the node
>> either via radio or Internet (Echolink and Allstar..no IRLP yet). I
>> created
>> a pair of Twitter accounts; one for the node and another for me
>> personally.
>> I added my node's Twitter account to the ones I follow with my personal
>> account and created an AGI scripts that formats a curl command which posts
>> some of the context variables passed in when Asterisk invokes the script
>> (context name, extension, callerid, etc). I then added the AGI call into
>> various extension stanzas in extensions.conf to test. If, for instance, I
>> do
>> a reverse autopatch and connect to the reverse autopatch "extension", I
>> almost immediately get an SMS tweet on the Blackberry.  Great. However, it
>> seems that connections via the radio are not processed in any way in
>> extensions.conf (thought [default] stanza would apply but apparently only
>> applies to autopatch), and inbound connections from either Allstar or
>> Echolink, while processed through [radio-secure], hang on the AGI call and
>> don't proceed to the following call to rpt. I'm assuming this is because
>> AGI
>> calls generally follow an "Answer" and are only valid in the connected
>> state. I tried "deadAGI" since it doesn't seems to be dependent on being
>> in
>> the answered state but it hung the same way. It's possible I've got a
>> problem in the AGI script which is causing the hang but it certainly
>> doesn't
>> occur when the AGI call follows "Answer".
>>
>> So I'm looking for help to understand other possible ways to invoke a
>> script
>> that calls curl to post the tweet when a radio user makes an outbound
>> connection to Allstar or Echolink and when an Echolink or Allstar user
>> connects in to the radio.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Thanks and 73's
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> KF7DRV
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Search the app_rpt.c source file for connpgm and discpgm.
> These appear to execute system commands on connect and disconnect,
> but you are going to have to figure out how to use them
> by looking at the source as they are not documented.
> I have not used these myself so I can't tell you if they
> will work for you.
>
> Steve
> WA6ZFT
>
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