I think this is what you are asking....

Not sure how much you know about creating iax and sip account.

You need to create either a sip (sip.conf) or iax (iax.conf) context that connects to something. A phone, another local or remote asterisk, a voip provider, etc.

You then create a context in extensions.conf that designates the extension to match coming from the radio (autopatch).

In rpt.conf you link to this context when autopatch is enabled (*61).

61=autopatchup,context=pbx_server,noct=1,farenddisconnect=1,dialtime=20000,quiet=1 ; Autopatch up

In this case the context points to pbx_server

so here is my extension context -

[pbx_server]
exten => _NXX,1,Dial(IAX2/pbx/${EXTEN})

Basically it says pass any 3 digit number to the pbx context in iax.conf. This could be passed to sip with sip in place of iax assuming there was a sip context named pbx. The names are arbitrary but must match between contexts.

rpt goes to extension goes to iax or sip

You activate the patch *61 and then dial 520. The extension stanza sends this to the defined iax or sip stanza which is the interface to where you are calling.

The extension could be specific as in -

exten => 520,1,Dial(IAX2/pbx/${EXTEN})

Which would sent extension 520 to the iax or sip account. It also could be something like -

exten => 520,1,Dial(SIP/12035551212@voipms) or

exten => 520,1,Dial(IAX/voipms/12035551212)

To dial a real phone number either sip or iax assuming you had an account with voipms and stanza in iax.conf or sip.conf linking to them. So in this case dialing 520 on the patch would dial the number 1-203-555-1212 at voip provider voip.ms

The example sip and iax contexts are usually provided by the phone manufacturer or voip provider

I hope that is clear but if not let me know.

I link two asterisk systems here on two different computers. One is an allstar server the other is an asterisk pbx. They are linked with iax and that is what is shown above.

There is a ton of info and books on Asterisk out there. I have been using Asterisk as my home pbx for years and have it linked to X10 and many other home control systems. This can all be linked to the radio if desired.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:08:47 -0600
From: ars.w5omr@gmail.com
To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] method for making calls to asterisk

On 02/20/2014 03:33 PM, mike@midnighteng.com wrote:

I remember a message some time ago related to this but I did not save it??? Thought I did ???

Background - I am trying to automate a few things.

I'm looking for a way to make a call "directly to asterisk" via app_rpt command ?

For instance, connecting to a iax or sip extension ?

In order to pass a command directly to a running instance of Asterisk

#> asterisk -rx "rpt nodes 2000"
(for example, if you were at the command prompt of the machine that houses node 2000)

Makes it easy to schedule things in cron, as well. Better to let the OS handle things

I have hourly chimes, that play from 6am till 10pm, Monday thru Friday.
It looks like:

0 6-22 * * 1-5 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 29655 *81"
The fields are documented all over but for the sake of ease of finding it...

The time and date fields are:

: field allowed values

----- --------------

minute 0-59

hour 0-23

day of month 1-31

month 1-12 (or names, see below)

day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)

A field may be an asterisk (*), which always stands for ``first-last''.

Ranges of numbers are allowed. Ranges are two numbers separated with a hyphen. The specified range is inclusive. For example, 8-11 for an ``hours'' entry specifies execution at hours 8, 9, 10 and 11.

Lists are allowed. A list is a set of numbers (or ranges) separated by commas. Examples: ``1,2,5,9'', ``0-4,8-12''.

Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges. Following a range with ``/'' specifies skips of the number's value through the range. For example, ``0-23/2'' can be used in the hours field to specify command execution every other hour (the alternative in the V7 standard is ``0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22''). Steps are also permitted after an asterisk, so if you want to say ``every two hours'', just use ``*/2''.

Names can also be used for the ``month'' and ``day of week'' fields. Use the first three letters of the particular day or month (case doesn't matter). Ranges or lists of names are not allowed.

The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run. The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or % character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified in the SHELL variable of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input.

Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields --- day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be run when either field matches the current time. For example,
``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday.

All that being said, you can set a crontab to do what you want, when you want it done.

-Geoff/W5OMR

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