Hello,

Their behavior is different, but both are used to receive events.

recvEvent blocks until Freeswich sends it an Event.

recvEventTimed(1000) waits for 1 second max to receive an event from FS. If no event is received within 1 second, the program will continue to execute the next line of code.

I use both variants for different scenarios.

From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Antonio
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2014 1:52 PM
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: [Freeswitch-users] ESL: recvEvent vs recvEventTimed

Hi all,

I'm doing a esl program to get all the events from fs and I always want to wait for an event before continue.

but i facing a difficult decision to choose between recvEvent() or recvEventTimed(0).

I read in the wiki:
recvEvent() - blocks until it receives an event
recvEventTimed(0) - waits X ms  or blocks until it receives an event

so they are the same or no?
For your experience with ESL what method do you recommend?

Thanks,
António