[Freeswitch-users] Canceling sched_hangup and UUID lookup

Kurtis Heimerl kheimerl at cs.berkeley.edu
Sat Jan 3 02:00:25 MSK 2015


I think I understand how it could be done through ESL, but there's no
mechanism to look up sessions? That seems really weird.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:48 PM, David Villasmil Govea <
david.villasmil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, if you don't have a lot of traffic, you can just use nibblebill as
> suggested. You can just use account balances * 100 if you can't use floats
> or decimals.
>
> Else, you need to use ESL and keep track of all calls, store states
> somewhere like a db, so that when you need to change timeouts you know
> which ones to change.
>
> But again, if you don't have too much traffic, you might look into
> nibblebill,  I used it some time ago and it works ok with small traffic.
> On Jan 2, 2015 5:42 PM, "Kurtis Heimerl" <kheimerl at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Here's the use case.
>>
>> A new call comes in. I have to find all calls from that user account and
>> reset their timeouts (as a new call will change the total billable time).
>> So I need a mechanism from the dialplan that can search for all calls (and
>> their uuids) with a certain variable set. Does that make sense?
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:37 PM, David Villasmil Govea <
>> david.villasmil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure how you intent to use it, but if you set a variable, when
>>> cdrs are saved, the variables are saved just like any other channel
>>> variable, of course along uuids, etc.
>>> On Jan 2, 2015 5:34 PM, "Kurtis Heimerl" <kheimerl at cs.berkeley.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:30 PM, David Villasmil Govea <
>>>> david.villasmil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't think you can cancel a sched_hangup,  but you can afaik
>>>>> re-issue the command with a new time.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If that'll erase the old one, that's totally sufficient. Great!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Regarding the tag, if you need it as a cdr field, you just need to set
>>>>> a custom variable, they get saved automatically when saving the cdr.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to look up a uuid via these variables?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  On Jan 2, 2015 5:17 PM, "Kurtis Heimerl" <kheimerl at cs.berkeley.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> No! I hadn't seen it. My brief reading says it may be able to fit our
>>>>>> needs. There are some issues though (for instance, it's commonly known to
>>>>>> never use a float/double for currencies and we do bill per second). So I'll
>>>>>> follow up with that and see if it's a solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Barring that, is there any other way to do the two things I'm looking
>>>>>> for?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is why mod_nibblebill exists, have you looked at it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Kurtis Heimerl <
>>>>>>> kheimerl at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello Freeswitch-users,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm building a group billing solution for our freeswitch system.
>>>>>>>> Our account management is external, so I need to make something custom. I
>>>>>>>> have two questions about how to do some stuff in FS.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1) I know how to limit call length (sched_hangup). I can query an
>>>>>>>> external account via REST to see how many credits they have and limit the
>>>>>>>> call with that. However, when a second user on the same account calls in, I
>>>>>>>> need to change that timeout. Is there a way to cancel a sched_hangup? I
>>>>>>>> found sched_cancel, but that seems to be for broadcasts and transfers,
>>>>>>>> neither of which I'm doing. I *guess* I could transfer to a hangup
>>>>>>>> extension instead of hanging up...  but that seems awful ugly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2) Is there a way to "tag" a call (uuid) with an arbitrary text
>>>>>>>> string and then look it up by that? That would allow me to tag each call
>>>>>>>> with the account name and later get all calls under that account.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>
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