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Thanks for the tuto. I’ve managed to get Realtime working easily using Asterisk 1.6.2.18 but when it comes to Asterisk 1.4.26.1, as soon as a call hits the box, Asterisk start rebooting.

Have you ever met this behaviour?

Thanks.

I am looking for a way to perform a database query during a call and retrieve the results. Many moons ago I managed to use unixODBC and app_dbodbc which worked just fine however now app_dbodbc has a mountain of compile errors, is no longer supported and has apparently been superseded by realtime.

Although realtime looks like a really neat solution I cannot see how to use it to perform custom query’s. Is there a way to do this with realtime or am I searching for a pot of Gold?

Regards,

Chris V

The database structure mentioned in the tutorial is just for storing messages in a database. As far as I know, this can only be done with the odbc voicemail storage system. You have to use ‘make menuselect’ and enable this selection and recompile Asterisk. As for voicemail users, here’s the database structure that I’m currently using on Asterisk v1.4.x:


CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `voicemail_users` (
`uniqueid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`customer_id` varchar(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`context` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
`mailbox` varchar(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`password` varchar(5) NOT NULL default '0',
`fullname` varchar(150) NOT NULL default '',
`email` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
`pager` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
`tz` varchar(10) NOT NULL default 'central',
`attach` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'yes',
`saycid` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'no',
`dialout` varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',
`callback` varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',
`review` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'no',
`operator` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'no',
`envelope` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'no',
`sayduration` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'no',
`saydurationm` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '1',
`sendvoicemail` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'yes',
`delete` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'no',
`nextaftercmd` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'yes',
`forcename` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'no',
`forcegreetings` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'no',
`hidefromdir` varchar(4) NOT NULL default 'yes',
`stamp` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`uniqueid`),
KEY `mailbox_context` (`mailbox`,`context`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=106 ;


Here’s a sample for insert:

INSERT INTO `voicemail_users` (`uniqueid`, `customer_id`, `context`, `mailbox`, `password`, `fullname`, `email`, `pager`, `tz`, `attach`, `saycid`, `dialout`, `callback`, `review`, `operator`, `envelope`, `sayduration`, `saydurationm`, `sendvoicemail`, `delete`, `nextaftercmd`, `forcename`, `forcegreetings`, `hidefromdir`, `stamp`) VALUES
(1, '0', 'employees', '1000', '12345', 'Robert', 'admin@astrag.com', '', 'central', 'yes', 'no', '', '', 'no', 'no', 'no', 'no', 1, 'yes', 'no', 'yes', 'no', 'no', 'yes', '');

would you plz give me a sample sql query for voicemail setup.
I appreciate your concern.

I think this has to do with your settings in /etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf
With Asterisk 1.6.x you have to set the ‘connection’ being used in that as well. Check the config samples for extconfig.conf to know what I mean.

WARNING[3583]: res_config_mysql.c:325 realtime_mysql: MySQL RealTime: Invalid database specified: asterisk (check res_mysql.conf)

But when I issue the command: \realtime mysql status\ i get that i’m connected at asterisk@127.0.0.1 for xy period of time. And everything seems to be fine.

My res_mysql.conf:

[general]
dbhost = 127.0.0.1
dbname = asterisk
dbuser = asterisk
dbpass = 123456
dbport = 3306
dbsock = /tmp/mysql.sock
requirements=createclose

I’m using 1.6.2.1 version. Please can someone help me with this?

You can do this with voicemail.conf setting: attach=yes – this will send an email automatically with the email attached. I honestly haven’t tried it without the attach=yes, but I would imagine that it would still send the email.

If it is yes..Can u just guide me with few examples.

vinodh