On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Steven Schoch <schoch+freeswitch.org@xwin32.com> wrote:

There are several caller-ID variables defined in the wiki, and I'm trying to understand the difference:

caller_id_number, caller_id_name,
origination_caller_id_number, origination_caller_id_name,

effective_caller_id_number, effective_caller_id_name,
outbound_caller_id_number, outbound_caller_id_name,

If I understand correctly, caller_id_number and caller_id_name are read-only variables that contain the caller-ID from an incoming call.

Correct.

I don't understand origination_caller_id_number. It says it sets it for LEG A, but I don't understand LEG A.

This one is for when you don't already have a leg, i.e. when you're doing an originate at the fs_cli. Example:

freeswitch@internal>originate {origination_caller_id_number=18005551212}sofia/gateway/mygw/14083425400 1002

What's the difference between origination_caller_id_number and effective_caller_id_number?

Use effective_caller_id_number in a bridge:
<action application="bridge" data="{effective_caller_id_number=18005551212}sofia/gateway/mygw/14083425400"/>

As near as I can tell, the outbound_caller_id_number variable is not used by any module, but is mainly used to send information from a directory entry to an outbound dialplan. Do I have that right?

That is correct.

In the dialplan, it seems the right way is to do this:

<action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_name=${outbound_caller_id_name}"/>

Does this require me to set outbound_caller_id_name in *all* my directory entries? What if it's missing in one. Can I have it use a default?

You can set this in vars.xml. Look for the line with "0000000000" and you'll be able to figure out the rest.

The next question is about the outgoing Caller-ID Name. From the SIP trace, I see the name is set both in the "From:" line and the "Remote-Party-ID:" line, in quotes (""). However, the name does not appear on the caller-ID box of the POTS line. It seems the phone company (AT&T) is getting the name from a CNAM lookup. Is this something I can change, or is it just not sent in the path between Flowroute and AT&T?

If the phone company is doing a CNAM lookup then there's not really anything you can do, unless they have a reason that they're doing a CNAM lookup instead of using the caller_id_name information. I'd ask Flowroute for feedback on that one.

-MC

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Steve

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