New script to make call recordings visible in ARI

This looks pretty good.. I am not a fan of the ARI mostly because tracking monitors is crappy but this looks like it could be a decent solution... maybe the trick is to hook up with the FreePBX team and see if it could be put in to the dialplan and used as an AGI and called as needed and more real time....

I just updated the initial post to remove caveat 2, since that was an artifact of my bad programming that I fixed, and added to Step 3 of the Install instructions to note that you need to edit the script to set the appropriate MIN_EXT and MAX_EXT for your extension range.

Yes, James, it would be nice if we could get this functionality built into an AGI script and part of the actual recordings interface. The script would have to be converted to perl or PHP though and that's a bit beyond me still. If anybody else would like to attempt it...

Yes, jahyde, you can also host the file as well. Please grab the version I just put up there as I added the first post as a README-First file so it would have some self contained instructions. If I make improvements I'll post updates to this thread so you can grab the improved versions

There are probably lots of things that could be added or changed, but it's a good workable start on something that's been missing for a while, and something I didn't want to pay the upgrade to the hybrid hosted version to get back.

markh aka oneobserver

I just updated the script one more time. I had to add a bit of error checking for extensions that had not yet set up their VM, and I changed the way the files were moved over so they actually are named correctly such that the ARI and phone interface can now both access the recordings properly. I had to build in an artifact so the recordings could be verbally identified as recordings. It now prefaces the from number with 999 and the 2 number with 222, so you can tell this is a recording. It can make the read back a bit long, but there had to be something...

I updated the initial posting to note the new change. The only outstanding item I can see is that there is a slight possibility of a race condition if there is a new VM coming in, or somebody is deleting VM's in the INBOX while it is processing the new recordings.

The file has been updated on my archive, so if any of you are holding copies, it's time to update your archives.

markh aka oneobserver

I tryed this and it deletes from the monitor file but doesnt put it in VM, any ideas?

I'm running 2.0.0 and it didnt work, so I had a friend fix it to work with 2.0.0 if any one could use it let me know and I'll post it.

Just a suggestion, I know this is probably a personal toy but since your invested in the gneral Idea of how it all works maybe look at and see if you can adjust the ARI to make it functional on its own, then submit the patches to freepbx.org. It is the community that makes these projects go round...

Hi All

The link http://support.infoarch.com/tools/move-recordings.zip does not seem to be available any longer.

Is there a repositore that these very friendly members of the community can upload their contributions to rather than hosting it themselves?

It seems like such a waster when these contributions disappear.

Regards
Sisyphus

I just found this script...very useful. I know some people using the recording a feature a lot and need a way to better organize them. In ARI, the list of valid folders is defined in includes/main.conf.php. If an additional folder is added to the valid list then the script could organize all recordings into that folder. I'm going to set this up on a test system and try it out. Just an idea for making it even easier to keep them organized. I really like this approach since it allows the users to access the recordings from a landline by dialing into their voice mailbox. Great work!

Rob

Change or modify as you need to fit your environment. I would like to see what changes you come up with though, so can you send me the modifications? I no longer run a TrixBox, so I am also looking at adapting this and any changes into Elastix. It was mostly working before the last update...

markh aka oneobserver

I've been looking at this too and I don't see a way to do it within ARI. The only way I see to do it is to install web-meetme and use it to manage conferences. The authentication of ARI uses the voicemail configuration file. Conferences are not stored (including PIN's) in these configuration files, only in the extensions_additional.conf and the mysql database. So either the authentication of ARI would need to change to allow review of call logs or you use web-meetme. Most of the other features available in ARI don't make sense for conferences so I think web-meetme is the right way to go.

Rob

You have to set it up to record when you set up the conference. Unfortunately there is no way to set it up beforehand that I know of anyway. You may be able to do so by looking through the defines or php code.

For on-demand, why wouldn't someone just use *1 to record it and the script moves to voicemail? That would provide on-demand recording if someone forgot to set it up to record?

Rob

Web Meetme will do it on top of Asterisk. You set up a destination for a DID that goes into the conference, and they can be recorded.

Rob

This script is not designed to move conference recordings so if that is what you are attempting to do it will not work. As I posted before, web-meetme is designed to handle recording and playback of conference recordings. The filename in your error log looks like naming used for conference recordings. The script is only designed to process recorded files for individual extensions since asterisk puts these in a special naming format which is used by the script to determine where it should go.

Rob

I think that format of the recorded file name was changed in the new version. The format is this:
For Group:
$agi->set_variable("CALLFILENAME","g{$exten}-{$timestamp}-{$uniqueid}");

For OUT:
$agi->set_variable("CALLFILENAME","OUT{$exten['data']}-{$timestamp}-{$uniqueid}");

For IN:
$agi->set_variable("CALLFILENAME","{$timestamp}-{$uniqueid}");

For in i see that extension it is not exist in the file name.
oneobserver can you modify the script to work with the new version of trixbox?

Robert