provided by Star2Billing S.L.

Hello guys,

First of all, a huge congratulation to you, you've done incredible improvements since the last time I tried the interface.
I am back on stage to try A2Billing for a project and for now everything is going pretty well. Except a minor issue:
When I call A2Billing with a local channel in a ring group, the call duration is always 0 second and nothing is billed.
I use local channels for multidevices ringing e.g.: SIP/user1&Local/user1@a2billing, where user1@a2billing executes a macro where the callerid is set properly and a2billing.php is called with the right extension parameters.
The call goes through, and it shows in the call history of the user, but the duration is 0 seconds and the type is ANSWERED.

Any idea on how I could correct this?

Cheers,
Emrah

Is this with FreePBX?

Joe

Nop, Asterisk v1.6.

Regards,
Emrah

We've experienced this in FreePBX, where effectively there are two dial commands going on.

You really need to do a goto, rather than a dial.

Joe

Hi,

How may I proceed when I need to ring multiple extensions where some of them must be billed through a2billing?


I hope you understood me I don't know how to explain it otherwise.

Cheers,
Emrah

Hi

You can set the accountcode instead of the callerID, and A2Billing will authenticate on that.

The problem you are experiencing is described with reference to FreePBX here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2127&start=30

Note the code used to pass a call from Asterisk to FreePBX, and see if that gives you any clues how to proceed.



Joe

Hello!

Thanks a lot for your prompt responses. I don't understand how to use this code to accomplish what I would like to do?
How may I place an extension that goes through a2b within a list of other devices to ring simultaneously without using chan_local?

Cheers,
Emrah

Any idea?
At the moment, the call goes through, is authenticated with the accountcode, is shown in the user's cdrs but the duration is constantly 0 sec. This happens when I call a2billing from within a list of dev I simultaneously ring, like exten => 1,1,Dial(SIP/ext1"and"SIP/ext2"and"Local/123456789@a2billing,,)

Cheers,
Emrah

Up up?

Had the Same issue as you are having.
Instead of using
Dial(local/18125551212@a2billing,60,L(3590000))
I had to use
exten => _.,n,Goto(${at2billing},${EXTEN:0:50},1)

whenever the Dial(local command is used anywhere on a call before going to A2billing, a2billing well termination itself soon as the call is answered and your clients gets a free call. That is why its logging duration is 0 seconds.


If there are another way besides using the Dial(local command try using it.


Sam

PS,
I tested without Freepbx. Soon as the call came in from DID company routed it directly to EXT

which then cdialed the a2billing EXT using

Dial(local/18125551212@a2billing,60,L(3590000))

[a2billing] ; CallingCard application
exten => _X.,1,Answer
exten => _X.,n,Wait(1)
exten => _X.,n,AGI(a2billing.php)
exten => _X.,n,Hangup



And got same results.