[Freeswitch-users] Generating calls from external source

[Nik Middleton]

Thanks for that, coming from a C++ background it's a refreshing change
to be looking at something that seems logical and efficient.

 

I'd briefly looked at the event socket and wondered if that was the way
to go.  I presume that there's some sort of event generation that can
trigger and external process as well somewhere, though all I need to do
is update mysql (hopefully using some sort of pooled connection)

 

I'm not using a TDM card, I have a direct interconnect with the PSTN
breakout provider with 1,500 channels available to me.  I'm finding
Asterisk proving to be less than stable at high call volumes and load
values spike at more than 100 calls with billing/accounting in place,
hence my interest in FS.  The only thing that's concerning me is XML at
the moment.  Lots of code and very wordy.  I'm sure I'll appreciate why
XML given time

 

Regards,

 

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Michael S Collins
Sent: 03 February 2009 01:17
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Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Generating calls from external source

 

Nik,

 

Welcome to FreeSWITCH! The short answer is "yes, FS can do that." The
first thing that you should do is unlearn "the Asterisk way" of
thinking. Usually there is an elegant way of doing things in FS that
wasn't possible in Ast. 

 

I would recommend that you start by looking at the event socket, which
is somewhat analogous to the AMI only cooler. :) I have personally done
something similar to this using the event socket and a Perl script. The
key is to learn the syntax of the originate command. (definitely hit the
wiki and IRC channel) 

Are you using TDM cards for this? Just curious. 

 

-MC (IRC nick: mercutioviz)


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On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:35 PM, "Nik Middleton"
<nik.middleton at noblesolutions.co.uk> wrote:

	Hi Guys,

	 

	As a long time Asterisk user, I'm looking into freeswitch as an
alternative mainly due to (list multiple reasons here)

	 

	Can anyone give me a pointer as to how I would achieve the
following?

	 

	I need to replicate an emergency broadcast system currently
running under Asterisk.

	 

	At the moment, I run through a Mysql database and using the
manager API, issues an Originate command to dial a number.

	 

	When the call is answered, a message is played, and the
recipient has the option of hitting a digit to confirm receipt.  I then
call an AGI script to update the database.

	 

	Is this fairly easy to do in Freeswitch?

	 

	Not looking for code, just some pointers as to what's available
to do the above /

	 

	Regards,

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