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Callcentric offers US numbers in NY area code, with zero recurring costs. This is very convenient if you want your USA customers to connect to your PBX. After ordering a free number, you create a SIP account and route the DID to it. The service allows to register multiple free numbers. Forwarding to SIP URI is not supported.

Upon receiving a call, the caller ID in From field will look like 16313335447, with the country code without any leading symbols. The following piece of FreeSWITCH configuration (in public context) alters the caller ID in order to look like a normal number in a European dial plan:

  <extension name="intl_normalize" continue="true">     <!-- remove Swiss country code -->     <condition field="${caller_id_number}" expression="^41(\d+)" break="on-true">       <action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=0$1"/>       <action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_name=0$1"/>     </condition>     <!-- add 00 in front of country code -->     <condition field="${caller_id_number}" expression="^[1-9]" break="on-true">       <action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=00${caller_id_number}"/>       <action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_name=00${caller_id_number}"/>     </condition>   </extension>

It is important to set both effective_caller_id_number and effective_caller_id_name variables. If only effective_caller_id_number is set, the effective_caller_id_name still keeps the original caller ID number, and if the call is bridged to a local extension, the SIP phone may want to use it for displaying the caller.

 

 

Filed under: Networking Tagged: freeswitch, pbx, sip, voip

Here’s a new website where I promote the VoIP integration services on Swiss market: http://www.voxserv.ch/

The website is built with the Twitter Bootstrap, and here are the templates for template-toolkit which separate the Bootstrap HTML from text content: https://github.com/ssinyagin/voxserv.ch/tree/master/builder

Filed under: Networking, Programming Tagged: linux, server management

SIP clients installed on smartphones may pick up the destination number from the phone book, and it’s sometimes in e.164 format (+[countrycode][localdigits]).

The following piece of XML dialplan transforms such numbers into the standard form that is expected by most PSTN VoIP providers. This example assumes that the FreeSWITCH server is located in Switzerland and +41 is the e.164 prefix for in-land calls. It returns the call to the same context, making the switch traverse the whole context dialplan from the beginning. It makes sense to place this extension at the bottom of a context.

    <extension name="e164_pstn">       <condition field="destination_number" expression="^\+41(\d+)" break="on-true">         <action application="transfer" data="0$1 XML ${context}"/>       </condition>       <condition field="destination_number" expression="^\+(\d+)" break="on-true">         <action application="transfer" data="00$1 XML ${context}"/>       </condition>     </extension>
Filed under: Networking Tagged: freeswitch, pbx, voip

The user has several SIP accounts on a vPBX, and he wants that maximum one call is possible at a time.

The limit application in FreeSWITCH allows to control the number of concurrent calls, but one should be careful with when this limit should be applied. The switch decrements the limit counter automatically when a channel is terminated. But if the limit is executed on a-leg, and b-leg is transferred, the limit counter decreases only when the a-leg finishes the call. As a result, the user may receive a call, transfer it to a new destination and hang up, but the new calls are not coming in because the limit counter is reset when the original call ends.

In order to reset the limit counter after the b-leg is transferred, the limit application needs to be executed on b-leg only. This is possible by exporting the execute_on_answer variable with nolocal modifier.

The example also shows how to retrieve user variables from the XML directory in the calls toward the user.

  <context name="moretti">     <extension name="common_variables" continue="true">       <condition>         <action inline="true" application="set" data="availability_username=moretti"/>       </condition>     </extension>     <extension name="pstn_out">             <condition field="destination_number" expression="^[01]" break="on-false">         <!-- For outbound calls, we only set the limit counters,              but do not limit the call -->         <action application="limit" data="hash ${domain_name} ${availability_username} -1"/>         <action application="set" data="hangup_after_bridge=true"/>         <action application="set" data="continue_on_fail=false"/>       </condition>       <condition>         <action application="bridge" data="${outgw}/${destination_number}"/>       </condition>     </extension>     <extension name="inbound_73x">       <condition field="destination_number" expression="^73(d)$" break="on-false">         <!-- retrieve variables from the user entry in the directory -->         <action application="set" data="directory_userid=70$1@${domain_name}"/>         <action application="set" data="call_timeout=${user_data(${directory_userid} var ring_timeout)}"/>       </condition>       <!-- check the limit -->       <condition field="${cond(${limit_usage(hash ${domain} ${availability_username})} > 0 ? true:false)}"                  expression="^true$" break="on-true">         <action application="hangup"/>       </condition>       <!-- group call to the SIP user and a mobile phone -->       <condition>         <action application="export" data="nolocal:execute_on_answer=limit hash ${domain} ${availability_username} -1"/>         <action application="set" data="ignore_early_media=true"/>         <action application="set" data="transfer_ringback=$${hold_music}"/>         <action application="set" data="hangup_after_bridge=true"/>         <action application="set" data="continue_on_fail=false"/>         <action application="bridge" data="user/${directory_userid},[leg_delay_start=10]${outgw}/0123456789"/>       </condition>     </extension>       </context>
Filed under: Networking Tagged: freeswitch, pbx, sip, voip