[Freeswitch-users] Question Answertime variable? billsec is not available

[Michael Collins]

Are you trying to access these before the channel hangup is complete? If so
then yes, they will always be empty. They are not populated until the call
actually ends. Are you doing a hangup hook in Lua or something else?

-MC

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:03 PM, king2kin <xing2kin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The channel variables for this purpose seems to be
> {duration, billsec, answersec, flow_billsec, mduration, billmsec,
> answermsec, uduration, billusec, answerusec}
> see: source code "switch_channel.c";
> and wiki document on categories: channel variables
> see:
> http://wiki.freeswitch.com/index.php?title=Category:Variable&from=Variable+billmsec
>
>
> However, when I tried to access these channel variables from Lua script or
> dialplan, their values are always "nil" or empty.
>
> -- dialplan:
> {
>    <action application="answer"/>
>     ........
>    <action application="log" data="INFO billsec: ${billsec}; billmsec:
> ${billmsec}"/>
>    <action application="sleep" data="2000"/>
>    <action application="hangup"/>
> }
>
> -- Lua script:
> 2011-12-10 13:39:55.609375 [ERR] mod_lua.cpp:191
> C:\c4dev\freeswitch\Release\scr
> ipts/test1.lua:60: attempt to concatenate global 'ctsec' (a nil value)
> stack traceback:
>         C:\c4dev\freeswitch\Release\scripts/test1.lua:60: in main chunk
>
> see:
> {
> session:answer()
> .........
> ctsec = session:getVariable('billsec')
> ctmsec = session:getVariable('billmsec')
> freeswitch.consoleLog("INFO","***** Call-Time: sec=" .. ctsec .. "\n")
> freeswitch.consoleLog("INFO","***** Call-Time: msec=" .. ctmsec .. "\n")
> session:hangup()
> }
>
>
>  *From:* curriegrad2004 <curriegrad2004 at gmail.com>
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:15 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] Question Answertime variable?
>
> billseconds or bill_msec would be the one to turn to.
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Thomas Hoellriegel <admin at blindi.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Is there a possibility to determine the caller time for a channel at
> > the end of a call?
> >
> > For example: in asterisk exists a variable:
> > ${ANSWEREDTIME}
> > I like to store the Answertime in a Database for example:
> > Dailly minutes to call a Cellphone.
> > Can your help plese?
> > Thanks.
> >
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