Call Screening Bounties Wanted

With the feature be included in the trixbox package as a base feature?

I assume that it would also be submitted back to FreePBX?

Any budgetary estimates?

Ideally it would be an option in Find Me Follow Me.

Scott

That makes sense. How do you envision it would work if find mm/follow me was enabled?

You can count us in for $100.00

Scott

OK I'm in for $50 at the moment.

I already have the Privacy Manager enabled but it does nothing right now even on blocked calls. So having this features as part of the Privacy Manger sorta worries me.

I'd rather see it as part of the Follow Me/Find Me feature instead to be honest with you.

Thanks!

Dean
Anaheim, CA

Yes, Kerry is right. The fact the privacy manager may or may not be broken right now is irrelevant because screening will be a completely separate option of Privacy manager and will be all new code and will function both as a call to the user or a follow-me to the user. If the current implementation of privacy manager is in fact broken, it can be fixed in the future and will still remain an option of the drop-down.

Right now the privacy manager is simply a way to force a user who has their caller id blocked to put in a 10 digit phone number which would then be passed as caller id to the phone. The screening option will force the user record their name before the extension is rung and the called party will then have the option of accepting or rejecting the call. It is only related to the privacy manager in such that it will be in the same drop-down of options. It will function completely separately.

We have $350. The code is done. We need some more contributions to reach the $1,000. If you are looking for the ability to screen your calls consider contributing.

I'm always interested in call routing options. I always view the privacy manager as a last resort.

More so than a modification to the privacy manager, I'd like to see flexibility at the inbound route/destination level. I'd like to see this ability to set the blacklist destination become a standard part of the blacklist module.

And an option to catch / redirect unknown numbers:
http://trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/help/blocking-unknown-nu...
Right now the only option is to implement the privacy manager to deal with them. I'd love to be able to set a destination for these too.

If anyone plans to tackle either of those call screening issues let me know, I'd consider contributing to either.

I already have this, just not in a pretty module for FreePBX :( Its not pretty but works great :D

[screen]
;screen-record: Please record your name press pound when finished.
;screen-from: You have a call from
;screen-accept: Press 1 to accept 2 to reject, and 3 to transfer.
exten => s,1,Wait(1)
;Enter Phone Number to Call In Forwarding
exten => s,2,Set(PHONENUMBER=YOUREXTERNALNUMBER)
;Dial Initial Extenion
exten => s,3,Dial(SIP/INTERNAL INITIAL,15,mt)
exten => s,4,Playback(followme/status)
exten => s,5,Playback(priv-recordintro&then-press-pound)
exten => s,6,Set(SCREENFILE=/tmp/screen-${CALLERID(number)}-${EPOCH})
exten => s,7,Record(${SCREENFILE}.ulaw|2|10)
exten => s,8,Playback(auth-thankyou&pls-wait-connect-call)
;Dial Extension and include [macro-screen]
exten => s,9,Dial(SIP/VP-SIP-SFO/${PHONENUMBER},30,mtM(screen^${SCREENFILE}))
;Goto Voice Mail If We Reject Call
exten => s,10,Playback(custom/sorry)
exten => s,11,Goto(17);VM
exten => s,17,Goto(ext-local,vmu8004,1)
exten => s,18,Playback(goodbye)
exten => s,19,Hangup
exten => s,107,Goto(17)
exten => h,1,noop(${ARG2})
exten => h,2,System(/bin/rm -f ${ARG1}.ulaw)

[macro-screen]
;this is called in the Dial statement using M
;ARG1 recorded name to play back
;TODO: add a response timeout, after which the message is repeated
;(needed for outgoing zap fxo channels) and absolute timeout, after
;which VM is used
;exten => s,1,noop(${ARG1})
exten => s,1,noop(${ARG1})
exten => s,2,Playback(custom/call-from) ;you have an incoming call from:
exten => s,3,Playback(${ARG1})
;press 1 to accept 2 to reject 3 to transfer
exten => s,4,Read(ACCEPT|custom/options|1)
exten => s,5,Gotoif($["${ACCEPT}"="1"]?50) ;connect/bridge
exten => s,6,Gotoif($["${ACCEPT}"="2"]?30) ;reject to vm/fail to main context
exten => s,7,Gotoif($["${ACCEPT}"="3"]?40) ;transfer
exten => s,8,Gotoif($["${ACCEPT}"="4"]?30:30) ;any thing else vm/fail to main context
exten => s,n,GotoIf($["${INPUT}"="5"]?noanswer)
exten => s,30,SetGlobalVar(MACRO_RESULT=CONTINUE)
exten => s,31,Goto(51)
;If We Hit Transfer We Ask for Extension and Transfer call
exten => s,40,Read(TEXTEN|pls-ent-num-transfer|4);ask for extension then set macro to goto that and continue
exten => s,41,Gotoif($["${LEN(${TEXTEN})}"="4"]?42:45)
exten => s,42,SetGlobalVar(MACRO_RESULT=GOTO:from-internal^${TEXTEN}^1)
exten => s,43,Goto(51)
exten => s,45,Gotoif("$["${TEXTEN}"="0"] ?46:46);the logic is here to allow transfer to operator, i just didn't imlepent;it yet
exten => s,46,SetGlobalVar(MACRO_RESULT=CONTINUE)
exten => s,47,Playback(invalid)
exten => s,48,Goto(4)
;If We Accept Call We Continue and Brige Callers
exten => s,50,SetGlobalVar(MACRO_RESULT=)
exten => s,51,System(/bin/rm -f ${ARG1}.ulaw)
;If Call Is Rejected We Hangup and Fallback to Main Context
exten => h,1,System(/bin/rm -f ${ARG1}.ulaw)

I don't need this yet, but I think it is a option worth having. I'll pitch in $50.00

I would like to collect the bounties committed so far. I have submitted the patches to Kerry and FreePBX, so for right now, the application is done for it's current state. Once I have collected the bounties, I'll get Kerry the updated patches which fixed some minor things. Call screening has been integrated into FreePBX 2.5a which is available to try right now. 2.5 has some pretty major changes, so the patches are different that 2.4.

Once the initial bounties are collected, I would be willing to look at enhancements such as Percy's request. I am also going to work on integrating this into the ARI so users can control their own screening. That will hopefully make it in 2.5b.

I just want to check this off my list for now, so let's get this closed out.

http://freepbx.org/news

FreePBX 2.5.0 Beta Program Launched

A VERY short list of highlights includes:
Caller Screening, a form of Privacy Manager requiring callers to announce themselves so you can decide if you want to take the call or not

So if you still want to contribute, as I did to freepbx maybe it can put to further screening ideas like some of the ones I suggested:
http://freepbx.org/forum/freepbx/development/suggestions-more-nui...

kb9mwr,

As I had promised, on the good faith that the promised bounties would be paid, I submitted the patches to FreePBX. That is why this feature is in 2.5.

On a side note, other possible contributions include:
http://trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/really-e...

And a thanks to parallex420. I have pm'd you with details. If you are interested in the 2.4 patches, let me know, otherwise everything is in 2.5 and has been sent to Kerry for integration into the Trixbox patch plussed version.

Ok, I have some patches. The below set of commands will retrieve and attempt the patching without actually patching anything. Post the results of running this. It won't actually do anything, but I don't have a pristine 2.4 system to test the patches on. If the below works, I'll post further details.

cd ~
wget http://test2.schmoozecom.com/call-screening-patches/call-screening-patches.patch
patch -d / -p0 --dry-run -b < call-screening-patches.patch

Ok, it looks like it should go fine. You should do a "now" backup in the FreePBX Backup module just in case, but the command below will also backup the affected files for you.

Run:

patch -d / -p0 -b < call-screening-patches.patch

Then asterisk -rx reload

NOTE:
dialparties.agi will be replaced the next time you hit the reload bar in FreePBX. In order to prevent this from happening, you need to change the permissions on dialparties.agi:
chmod 555 /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/dialparties.agi

The problem with this is the next time you upgrade FreePBX, it isn't going to be able to write this file, so before you upgrade FreePBX the next time:
chmod 755 /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/dialparties.agi.

I told you that I would donate $50 for this feature and I am a man of my word. How do I get this money to the right person?

Please email me at trixbox .A.T. citapinc .D.O.T. com and give me the instructions to send the money.

Thanks!

Dean
Anaheim, CA

citapinc,
The messages are hardcoded in Asterisk. The message played to the caller is:
priv-recordintro
and the message played to thee callee with the options they have is:
priv-callpending
so if you changed those messages in your installation, you could change the message. As far as the conditional use of screening only when using followme - that's not there. The place to put such a request is in the FreePBX tracker on
http://freepbx.org/trac/newticket
and you need to be logged in to the site with your account to put in a new ticket.

Back in June 2008 I said I'd contribute $50 to this bounty. Even though I'm no longer in business I'm still a man of my word and need to know where to send my $50.

Can someone please point me to the right spot so I can give my $50 to this project and other projects I said I'd commit to?

Thanks!

If you are really looking to pay, feel free to PayPal it to my email below.

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