August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
20h 33m
English
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Name
ExternalIVR() — Interfaces with an external IVR application
Synopsis
ExternalIVR(command[,arg1[,arg2...]])
Forks a process to run the specified
ExternalIVR-compliant command, and starts a
generator on the channel. The generator’s play list is controlled by
the external application, which can add and clear entries via simple
commands issued over STDOUT. The
external application will receive notifications of all DTMF events
received on the channel, and notification if the channel is hung up.
The application will not be forcibly terminated when the channel is
hung up.
See doc/externalivr.txt in the Asterisk source code for the specification of the ExternalIVR interface.
; Run a test external IVR program, passing an argument
exten => 123,1,ExternalIVR(test_program,${MYARGUMENT})