[Freeswitch-users] esl dialer

[Marcin S]

I am writing call center app, dialer and ivr are part of it. Nevertheless,
I still have no idea how to control inbound as well as outbound calls with
one "socket inbound" esl handle...


2013/10/9 Guillermo Ruiz Camauer <grcamauer at gmail.com>

> Are you writing a Dialer or an IVR?  A Dialer doesn't really need to
> answer calls.  You can always have one program (or thread) with an inbound
> socket and another with an outbound socket.
>
> Guillermo
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Marcin S <ms4esl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was considering this approach, however I don't know how to detect and
>> answer a call in "socket inboud" esl mode.
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/8 Guillermo Ruiz Camauer <grcamauer at gmail.com>
>>
>>> I handle all ESL communications from just one thread which receives and
>>> processes or generates all events and commands.  I do have a timer for each
>>> call which I use for certain timeouts (user inputs and ring time).
>>>
>>> Guillermo
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Marcin S <ms4esl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, I will try this approach. Am I right, that in order to handle
>>>> oubound calls similiar to inbound, I will have to spawn new thread for each
>>>> call?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/10/5 Guillermo Ruiz Camauer <grcamauer at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>> I have a Dialer that uses ESL from C, but I make an inbound connection
>>>>> to Freeswitch.  It is a socket which I keep open permanently.
>>>>> I recommend reading chapter 4 of the FreeSwitch Cookbook.
>>>>>
>>>>> Guillermo
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Marcin S <ms4esl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to switch from dialogic api to freeswitch/esl. Dealing
>>>>>> with inbound calls is easy (using esl outbound socket), however i have some
>>>>>> problems with outbound calls.
>>>>>> My application is written in C. I create a handle to esl
>>>>>> (esl_connect), then issue "bgapi originate ... &socket(127.0.0.1:8084async full)" in order to handle this connection just like inbound call. So
>>>>>> far so good.
>>>>>>  Here come the problems:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. esl creates new thread for my call - thats ok, it was expected -
>>>>>> but I do not receive any events on this new handle...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. esl_events fails - here is some strace output:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [pid 31588] send(5, "filter unique-id
>>>>>> a88f1268-2c28-11e3-befa-311d1641c437\n\n", 55, 0) = 55
>>>>>> [pid 31588] recv(5, "Content-Type: command/reply\nReply-Text: +OK
>>>>>> filter added. [unique-id]=[a88f1268-2c28-11e3-befa-311d1641c437]\n\n",
>>>>>> 65535, 0) = 110
>>>>>> [pid 31588] send(5, "event plain ALL\n\n", 17, 0) = 17
>>>>>> [pid 31588] recv(5, "Content-Type: command/reply\nReply-Text: -ERR
>>>>>> command not found\n\n", 65535, 0) = 64
>>>>>> [pid 31588] send(5, "linger", 6, 0)     = 6
>>>>>> [pid 31588] send(5, "\n\n", 2, 0)       = 2
>>>>>> [pid 31588] recv(5, "Content-Type: command/reply\nReply-Text: -ERR
>>>>>> command not found\n\n", 65535, 0) = 64
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. how can i distinguish, whether this call is successfull or not?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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