provided by Star2Billing S.L.

Heres what I am trying to do:

1) Call comes in and person selects extention.
2) Ring group is called
3) Cell phone number is dialed out on custom a2b trunk.

How do I make it so that this dialed out number is attached to a customer without any authentication.

Is there a way to pass the authentication instructions in the custom trunk properties?

Thanks in advance.
Christopher
WootSystems.com

Hi

There is an accountcodepreserve authentication module for FreePBX available from us, which allows you to authenticate on accountcode, but that only works when a DID is attached to a FreePBX extension.

To forward calls to a ring group, you would have to manually set the A2Billing account to use, and the easiest way to do this is set the forwarding number in the ring group as accountcode-to-use-plus-telephone-number-to call, then before passing the call to A2Billing, strip of the accountcode, and set it with the cdr(accountcode) function, and send the remaining digits into A2Billing with use _dnid = yes.

Joe

I decided to try this way instead but its not working.. any advice?


extensions_custom.conf:

[ringgroupout-custom]
;exten => _X.,1,Answer
exten => _X.,1,Wait(1)
exten => _X.,n,DeadAGI(a2billing.php,3)
exten => _X.,n,Hangup


[ringgroupsettaylor-custom]
exten => 5555,1,Answer
exten => 5555,n,Set(CDR(accountcode)=1316545316)
exten => 5555,n,Noop(ACCOUNTCODE=${ACCOUNTCODE})
exten => 5555,n,Goto(ringgroupout-custom,15192394312,1)



ASTERISK OUTPUT:

-- Executing [5555@from-internal:1] ResetCDR("SIP/601-00000001", "") in new stack
-- Executing [5555@from-internal:2] NoCDR("SIP/601-00000001", "") in new st ack
-- Executing [5555@from-internal:3] Progress("SIP/601-00000001", "") in new stack
-- Executing [5555@from-internal:4] Wait("SIP/601-00000001", "1") in new st ack
-- Executing [5555@from-internal:5] Progress("SIP/601-00000001", "") in new stack
-- Executing [5555@from-internal:6] Playback("SIP/601-00000001", "silence/1 &cannot-complete-as-dialed&check-number-dial-again,noanswer") in new stack
-- <SIP/601-00000001> Playing 'silence/1.ulaw' (language 'en')
-- <SIP/601-00000001> Playing 'cannot-complete-as-dialed.ulaw' (language 'e n')
-- <SIP/601-00000001> Playing 'check-number-dial-again.ulaw' (language 'en' )
-- Executing [5555@from-internal:7] Wait("SIP/601-00000001", "1") in new st ack
-- Executing [5555@from-internal:8] Congestion("SIP/601-00000001", "20") in new stack
== Spawn extension (from-internal, 5555, exited non-zero on 'SIP/601-00000 001'
-- Executing [h@from-internal:1] Hangup("SIP/601-00000001", "") in new stac k
== Spawn extension (from-internal, h, 1) exited non-zero on 'SIP/601-00000001 '

Hi

5555 does not exist in your from-internal context.

Include [ringgroupsettaylor-custom] in the from internal context, or more simply paste the following at the very top of extensions_customs.conf



Joe

gotcha! lol been playing with asterisk for years but never done any custom stuff.

Thanks!

Heres my config. Maybe it will help someone else out.

extensions_custom.conf:


[macro-dialout-trunk-predial-hook]
exten => s,1,Noop(${CHANNEL})
exten => s,2,Noop(${CHANNEL:6:2})
exten => s,3,GotoIf($["${CHANNEL:6:2}" = "54"]?2485530119accountcode,${OUTNUM},1)
exten => s,4,GotoIf($["${CHANNEL:6:2}" = "55"]?1316545316accountcode,${OUTNUM},1)
exten => s,5,GotoIf($["${OUT_${DIAL_TRUNK}:4:4}" = "A2B/"]?custom-freepbx-a2billing,${OUTNUM},1:2)
exten => s,6,MacroExit

[1316545316accountcode]
exten => _X.,1,Answer
exten => _X.,n,Set(CDR(accountcode)=1316545316)
exten => _X.,n,Set(CALLERID(num)=${REALCALLERIDNUM})
exten => _X.,n,Goto(a2bagicall3,${EXTEN},1)

[2485530119accountcode]
exten => _X.,1,Answer
exten => _X.,n,Noop(ACCOUNT CODE 2485530119 SELECTED)
exten => _X.,n,Set(CDR(accountcode)=2485530119)
exten => _X.,n,Set(CALLERID(num)=${REALCALLERIDNUM})
exten => _X.,n,Goto(a2bagicall3,${EXTEN},1)

[custom-freepbx-a2billing]
exten => _X.,1,DeadAGI(a2billing.php,${OUT_${DIAL_TRUNK}:8})
exten => _X.,n,Hangup()

[a2bagicall3]
exten => _X.,1,DeadAGI(a2billing.php,3)
exten => _X.,n,Hangup



Then I created a trunk with A2B/3 with outbound routes 55 and 54 prefixes.
Then in the Ring Group I added 55 + the number + #

In A2Billing I created a rate for the cell phone number in the ring group and applied no caller ID so that RG calls keep the CID of the incomming route.


Hope this helps someone else out. I spend hours on this thing lol.

We needed to do this purely via the FreePBX interface (ie no console access after initial config).

Whilst it could be construed as being insecure the A2Billing account number codes are 10 digit randomly generated numbers.

Previous A2Billing Extension config:


New A2Billing Extension config:


Then add an outbound route for XXXXXXXXXX*X. to send it to A2B and then prefix the intended forwarding numbers with the required account code.

eg: A Follow Me to 277847224 would become 3939058358*277847224#
<accountcode>*<number in international format>#

PS: The number would need to be in whatever format A2Billing will identify a route for it as... Our A2Billing rates are all standardised in full E164.

I'm trying to get this to work, as we have a few directly connected users with ATA's that want followme, etc. The only issue I see with this, is that the user managing this is nearly impossible. Asking them to always put in their account code with an * is a bit much. I imagine there needs to be a simpler way of doing a dblookup and pulling the account code to match the account holder for the DID...

I was trying this out to see if it would work with Follow-me, but I'm getting an Authentication Failed message.


The logic would change a bit, since then we would need to see if we already have an account code before looking one up.

Anyone already done this or something similar? I'm thinking if the original dnid is available we can look up in cc_did and get the account code...

TIA,

Carlos