On 11/09/09 7:25 AM, AC wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone explain to me how ATAs operate in a call shop type > environment to provide realtime billing to the callshop software. The > ATAs seem to be configured to connect directly to the asterisk server, > so how does the call shop software report in realtime your destination > and duration of the answered call?
Either from CDR or the Asterisk Manager. We wrote an application about 3 years ago to do this via the Manager, listing current channels, updating a Windows C# application for the manager, and disconnecting calls if someone didn't ask the manager for more time. We actually used the SendText function to print a message on the screen of the phone showing the remaining credit (and wrote a patch for Asterisk so you could do this from the manager - included in 1.2 if I remember correctly). -- Cheers, Matt Riddell Director _______________________________________________ http://www.venturevoip.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News) http://www.venturevoip.com/st.php (SmoothTorque Predictive Dialer) http://www.venturevoip.com/c3.php (ConduIT3 PABX Systems) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
