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Hi all,

I've got a2b working if i call an incoming number and have it forwarded to a2billing.php but i can't seem to get the sip friends to make a connection to a2b.

When i dial out with the sip friend that was set up in the a2b admin interface, it just dials straight out. When i use the same calling card by calling a number first, everything works just fine.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
bb

Check the context defined for your sip friend. It should be set on the context where you have a2billing defined.

Yes, i've tried playing with all of that but so far no luck. I've tried it as "callingcard" as well as "custom-callingcard". Not too sure why it doesn't debit from the card but i'm hoping that one day, it will just magically start working.

Can anyone else think of something to try?

Cheers.

Can you post an example of a sip friend from the configuration files? Also the context with a2billing.

hi marcelbarbulescu,

Thanks for your persistence...

Here is what i think are the important sections... am i missing something glaringly obvious?

Thanks.
bb


sip.conf has:
#include additional_a2billing_sip.conf

An exerpt from extensions.conf:

[from-internal]
;allow phones to use applications
include => custom_callingcard
include => callingcard


An exerpt from extensions_custom.conf:

; CallingCard application
;add an incoming route for the DID to Custom App: (un-comment next line)
custom-callingcard,s,1

; un-comment the 6 lines below to work on incoming DIDs
[custom-callingcard]
include => outbound-allroutes
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,Wait,2
exten => s,3,DeadAGI,a2billing.php
exten => s,4,Wait,2
exten => s,5,Hangup

;callingcard,s,1

; un-comment the 6 lines below to work on incoming DIDs
[callingcard]
include => outbound-allroutes
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,Wait,2
exten => s,3,DeadAGI,a2billing.php
exten => s,4,Wait,2
exten => s,5,Hangup


An exerpt from additional_a2billing_sip.conf:

[5043549877]
type=friend
username=5043549877
accountcode=5043549877
regexten=5043549877
callerid=5043549877
amaflags=billing
secret=secretpassword
nat=no
dtmfmode=RFC2833
qualify=no
canreinvite=no
host=dynamic
context=custom-callingcard
port=5060
regseconds=0
cancallforward=yes

When your sip friends calls somebody, the extension will not match the "s" extension. Change it like this:

[custom-callingcard]
include => outbound-allroutes
exten => _X.,1,Answer
exten => _X.,2,Wait,2
exten => _X.,3,DeadAGI,a2billing.php
exten => _X.,4,Wait,2
exten => _X.,5,Hangup

That did the trick! Thank-you so much!!! Now to go read up some more on s vs _X.

Cheers,
bb