Asterisk originate response says successfully queued but nothing more

Question

I once used pre-configured asterisk to make calls (using AMI). When I do that the response from originate used to have channel and unique id infos. Now I\'m trying to build a ne

Answer 1

I experienced the same problem regarding receiving no OriginateResponse when using Async: true and the problem turned out to be permissions for the manager user account.

The AMI user account needs to have either write permission "all" or write permission "call" (originate is not sufficient). Something like this:

[username]
secret=hello
deny=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
permit=127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0
read=orignate,call
write=originate,command,system,call

Answer 2

You are not giving much information about the actual action you are sending (its parameters), but I'll take a (long?) shot. I think that probably you are sending an async originate action, but you really want the sync behavior.

An "async originate action" means that asterisk will accept the command, but will place the call asynchronously, and then will let you know if it succeeded or not with an event that will arrive sometime later.

So, in your case, asterisk is just letting you know that the command arrived, and the call will be placed eventually. In this case, you should listen for incoming events that have the actionid of the action that originated the call, and react upon at that time.

But, if you want to know in a synchronous way if the call actually was answered or not (i.e: get asterisk to not respond to your action until the call has a dialstatus), try setting the async argument of the originate action to false.

See: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/ManagerAction_Originate . Notice the "async" argument, that's what you're looking for.

This is also descibed here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Manager+API+Action+Originate

Hope it helps!