Thanks, David

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one."

Thomas Jefferson

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Bryan D. Boyle <bdboyle@bdboyle.com> wrote:

On 1/17/2018 6:41 PM, David Shaw wrote:

Hello Everyone, Does anyone know how to use DTMF tones to run a command, to execute external script?

1. write the bash script or program (you can execute programs too; I suggest creating a subdirectory in the /etc/asterisk directory...doug calls it 'local', I usually call it 'scripts'), debug it, make sure to 'chmod 755 scriptname'.
2. Edit /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf.
3. Go to the [functionsxxxx] stanza for the node you're working with. Of, if you have just one function stanza, go there.
4. Insert a line, for instance:
85=cmd,/fully/qualified/path/to/script
5. save rpt.conf, restart asterisk.

Now, when you key up the node, and use *85, that script will run.

It should be noted that functions are decoded using the least number of digits. So, if you have:
8=cmd,somescript
81=cmd,somescript
811=cmd,somescript

which script gets executed is left as an exercise.

Really very simple and flexible.

BB
wb0yle/w2fuv

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