That’s what the XXX=cmd,/some/were/in/your/filesystem comes in
handy, where XXX=some DTMF command, and /… is a script you run.
You can have asterisk execute shell commands as the target of a DTMF
sequence.
For instance:
in rpt.conf in the functions stanza, I have lines thus: (note,
123/124 is a placeholder for the purposes of this discussion)
[functions]
...
123=cmd,/etc/asterisk/scripts/nodexup.sh
124=cmd,/etc/asterisk/scripts/nodexdown.sh
...
and in a scripts directory I've created under /etc/asterisk there's
a shell script called nodexup.sh:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt cmd myhubnode ilink 3 nodex"
with a chmod of 755, owned by whomever owns the asterisk daemon. To
write the node down script, cp nodexup.sh nodexdown.sh, change the 3
to a 1, save, check the permissions, and restart asterisk.
Now, if you have multiple nodes running on the same instantiation of
asterisk (as I do), I have them all pointing to a common function
stanza (I know, I should separate them out…), so, from any of my
nodes I can DTMF 123 (not really this sequence), and it will link
myhubnode to some nodex and take it down if I send the complimentary
sequence. I can still do the 4myhubnode3nodex# if I want, but,
having *123# to press correctly is a lot less liable to
fat-fingering or going into brain fade on the DTMF pad on the HT or
mobile than the extended sequence.
Yeah, it means you have to figure out just what you want to do, but,
the ability to execute not only macros, but shell scripts from the
daemon is a powerful (and dangerous) thing. You can still do the
long sequence if you need something for ad-hoc, but for normal ops,
making up a script to do it for you is a time/stress/fatfinger
prevention/ease of ops technique. By the by, you can also execute
the shell script from the command line, too…
Just my opinion, maybe this answers your question.
However, if you're looking for automatic connect on
reboot/restart…look at the startup_marcro line in the rpt.conf for
the node…
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