Making and taking phone calls with octothorpe
summary
A live Twisted-based library called octothorpe controls Asterisk via AMI and async AGI, logs channel state, originates calls, captures DTMF, and builds IVR menus. Demos show a working “hello world” playback, programmatic origination to a SIP phone, reliable capture of five DTMF digits, and a fragile but functional IVR with passcode and transfer. A stress test spins up 100 virtual hotlines with recorded monkey screeches; code, example dialplan, and a Vagrant-ready Asterisk VM live on GitHub.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 1:12Introduction
- 2:49How to get Asterisk
- 3:09Asterisk basics
- 3:39Dialplan example
- 4:58Channels
- 5:41Modules
- 6:24Asterisk Gateway Interface
- 7:30Asterisk Manager Interface
- 8:29AMI traffic example
- 9:29AsyncAGI
- 15:40Follow along with me
- 16:07The setup
- 40:08Other applications
- 42:12Further reading
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