[Freeswitch-users] Wait for ANSWER/HANGUP events in Mod lua

[Sergey Okhapkin]

Look at mod_nibblebill. It already does what you want and perfectly handles 
concurrent calls from the same subscriber.

On Sunday 18 August 2013 11:15:04 Sami Montour wrote:
> The billing I would like to use with lua is for real-time billing where
> subscribers are debited real-time or at the end of the call.
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> From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org
> [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ken
> Rice Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 10:55 AM
> To: FreeSWITCH Users Help
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Wait for ANSWER/HANGUP events in Mod lua
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> 
> billing in lua is asking for issues... why not do something like triggiering
> the billing from the xml cdr or such this avoids loss od cdrs as it uses
> the filesystem as a backup to incase your websvices or billing processor is
> down
> 
> Ken
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Aug 18, 2013, at 10:19, Karsten Horsmann <khorsmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sam,
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> 
> you should be more verbose what you currently doing. There a many ways to
> call an lua script in FS (in the dialplan, as startup-script, as
> dialplan-binding etc).
> 
> Sounds like you want to fetch some kind of billing informations.
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> 2013/8/17 Sami Montour <smontour at verizon.net>
> 
> I am using Mod lua for call processing on the FreeSwitch. I would like to
> wait for some events such as CHANNEL_ANSWER and CHANNEL_HANGUP  in order to
> get the answer time and hangup time. Basically, something like
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> Wait for event CHANNEL_ANSWER or CHANNEL_HANGUP
> 
> If (event_name = “CHANNEL_ANSWER”) then answer_timestamp =
> getHeader(“Caller-Channel-Answered-Time”)
> 
> If (event_name = “CHANNEL_HANGUP”) then hangup_timestamp =
> getHeader(“Event-Date-Timestamp”)
> 
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> The session:getState() described in module lua gets the call state but not
> the channel state. For instance, ‘CS_EXECUTE’ is the channel state when it
> is executing a dialplan not when the call is answered.
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> Is there a way to wait for channel events such as CHANNEL_ANSWER and
> CHANNEL_HANGUP in order to retrieve answer and hangup timestamps for a
> call?
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> Any input is very much appreciated.
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> Thanks.
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> 
> Sam