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Collect Calls

 
By zerofill at Wed, 2005-11-09 18:44 | New Feature Requests

Does anyone know anywhere to get info on using Asterisk with collect calls?
For instance...
I want the person to dial a number speak their name and then the receiver of the call to press a button to accept it.

Anyone seen anything like this?
I want to use astbill with this type of setup for calls.

Thinking Hard

By london3 on Wed, 2005-11-09 18:50

15 Minutes ago I answered a post that the solution is really hard.

This is even harder. :-)

You guys are really keeping my brain working today. THANKS

I have no solution but I will put it in the back of my brain and in our feature request list.

Anyway it may not be that hard if you can come up with $50000 prefeerly in cash. :-)

ARE --
http://astartelecom.com - Independent VOIP Telecoms Broker. Consulting in Asterisk and Drupal

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Hehe...wish I had 50k for

By zerofill on Wed, 2005-11-09 18:57

Hehe...wish I had 50k for about 15k I coulda bought a system that does it LOL...wish I had 15k haha...
But I know this has got to be possible with asterisk...
And it is such a common way for collect calls to be sent...
Someone must have made this work with asterisk before...
I just can't seem to find info on it.

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More Description

By london3 on Wed, 2005-11-09 19:03

Can you try to describe a bit more what you want?

User call a number. Get a voice Prompt: "Please speek your name"
Voice Prompt: "Thank you for calling AstBill Super Company. You are now on VOIP Hold." :-)

Receivers phone ring. Voice Prompt are saying.
You have a call from: Sound file is played.
Press One to accept the call.
Press two to sleep
Press tree to do nothing

Is that what you are trying to do?

Why use a voice prompt. Can't you just have the user to key in a pin and the pin send a Caller ID Name by looking up in the database to the receiver and he can choose to pick or reject the call. Why you want to use voice to identify the caller.

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http://astartelecom.com - Independent VOIP Telecoms Broker. Consulting in Asterisk and Drupal

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Receivers phone ring. Voice

By zerofill on Wed, 2005-11-09 19:15

Receivers phone ring. Voice Prompt are saying.
You have a call from: Sound file is played.
Press One to accept the call.
Press two to Deny the call
Press three to block all further calls from this number

Is that what you are trying to do?
The voice prompt is necessary for what I need to use it for...
The person making the collect call might never be the same person...So it would be impossible to add a number for that person making the collect call.

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See the trunk group coming

By zerofill on Wed, 2005-11-09 19:18

See the trunk group coming in is actually hooked to a payphone...like a payphone you would have in a jail where no money is required from the phone to make the call...

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Now I have been told in the

By zerofill on Thu, 2005-11-10 17:29

Now I have been told in the asterisk dev mailing list this can be done..
Well here is the actual email:

> I want the person to pick up the phone...dial a number..
> Then a voice response comes up and says please state your name..blah blah
> Then places them on hold while it calls that number.
> Tells the person that picks up...
> You have a collect call from (recorded name person spoke making the call)
> To accept this call dial 1
> To deny this call dial 2
> To block all further calls from this party dial 3
>
> Now is that possible to write strictly in asterisk and has anyone seen any
> examples similar to this anywhere?
>

You can do this in the dial plan via dial plan programming. You can
do it via AGI scripting. There's also an application called
app_followme which I hope will get merged into Asterisk after 1.2 is
released that also does this. So, yes, you can do this.

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AGI scripting - Help Needed

By london3 on Thu, 2005-11-10 18:14

He is right. You can basically do anything in the dialplan when you are using AGI scripting. Now when I am thinking about it is not extremely difficult. The only problem is that we have not done much with the Asterisk recording interface.

I do understand it is relatively easy to do.

So you need somebody that can write Simple Perl.
or know how to hack extensions.conf

If anybody wants to do it I can try to assist with my limited knowledge. I just don't have the time right now to get it done my self.

Start by identifying the commands to record sound.

When that is working calling another person and playing the sound file is not hard.

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app_followme I am not

By zerofill on Thu, 2005-11-10 19:04

app_followme
I am not familiar with...you know anything about this? Or where to get more info...I found some things in the voip-info wiki...but I don't believe it was referring to the same thing as this guy was.

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OK..for anyone

By zerofill on Fri, 2005-11-11 00:14

OK..for anyone interested...
What he was referring to in the email was this:
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5574

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London3... Can you email me?

By zerofill on Sun, 2005-11-13 20:15

London3...
Can you email me? I wanted to ask you a few other questions...
vb6xweb@yahoo.com

Thanks

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