[Freeswitch-users] Call with failover

[Avi Marcus]

You can try using a transfer after the bridge.

-Avi

2011/7/10 Stanisław Pitucha <viraptor at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
> I've got a simple problem to solve that doesn't seem to be so simple
> to execute. For some incoming call, I'd like to call one destination,
> then if it fails (user not registered / busy / any other failure) call
> another destination. Both destinations should be arbitrary, but for
> now I'm ok with the first being set to a `user/...`. Second needs to
> be sent through the dialplan (might need setting billing details,
> etc.), or might be another user.
>
> At the moment, I'm sending the call to "user/...|loopback/.../..." -
> which often results in the call being simply hungup right after
> loopback answers.
> From #freeswitch I learned that loopback can do that (still don't
> understand it, didn't find any related bug either) and I should use
> xml_curl or event sockets - but no real examples. So after doing a bit
> of research, I run into the following problems:
>
> - If I use dialplan via xml curl, I would either need to pass the
> control back to some other context (using loopback seems to be the
> only option), or compute all parameters in one go and do a transfer to
> the final set of destinations (not possible in every case)
>
> - If I use eventsocket, how can I react to the connection failure? It
> seems that I will only get an event about the hangup and the channel
> will disappear on its own. Is there even a way to do a "on hangup, do
> this before anything else happens"?
>
> Are there any examples of a similar scenario on the web? Any links /
> longer explanations would be appreciated.
>
> PS. is it defined somewhere why/when does loopback destroy the call on
> accepted connection?
>
> --
> KTHXBYE,
>
> Stanisław Pitucha
>
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