FreeSWITCH Binding

The FreeSWITCH Binding connects to a FreeSWITCH instance and can report on current active calls as well as show unread voicemails and if a MWI is on.

You can also send any command to FreeSWITCH, see Freeswitch Commands (opens new window) for more info.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the FreeSWITCH ESL module listing on a public port, your event_socket.conf.xml in FreeSWITCH should look something like:

<configuration name="event_socket.conf" description="Socket Client">
  <settings>
    <param name="nat-map" value="false"/>
    <param name="listen-ip" value="0.0.0.0"/>
    <param name="listen-port" value="8021"/>
    <param name="password" value="ClueCon"/>
    <!--<param name="apply-inbound-acl" value="lan"/>-->
  </settings>
</configuration>

Binding Configuration

This binding can be configured in the file services/freeswitch.cfg.

Property	Default	Required	Description
host		Yes	host name or IP address of FreeSWITCH host
port		Yes	port number as specified in listen-port from event_socket.conf.xml described earlier
password		Yes	password as specified in password from event_socket.conf.xml described earlier

Item Configuration

This is a sample item entry for non filtered calls, any inbound call will be considered active, this is sufficient for most uses:

Switch Incoming_Call  "Home Phone"                    (Phone) { freeswitch="active" }
Call Active_Call      "Connected [to %1$s from %2$s]" (Phone) { freeswitch="active" }
String Active_Call_ID "Caller ID [%s]"                (Phone) { freeswitch="active" }

This item is for a filtered call, only calls with an inbound direction and a destination number of 5555551212 will be matched:

Switch Incoming_Call  "Home Phone"                    (Phone) { freeswitch="active:Call-Direction:inbound,Caller-Destination-Number:5555551212" }
Call Active_Call      "Connected [to %1$s from %2$s]" (Phone) { freeswitch="active:Call-Direction:inbound,Caller-Destination-Number:5555551212" }
String Active_Call_ID "Caller ID [%s]"                (Phone) { freeswitch="active:Call-Direction:inbound,Caller-Destination-Number:5555551212" }

For messages and message waiting indicator (MWI) the voice mail account is specified:

Number Voice_Messages "Unread Messages [%d]" (Phone) {freeswitch="message_waiting:[email protected]"}

To send API commands to FreeSWITCH add a simple api item:

String FS_API  "FS API [%s]" (phone) {freeswitch="api"}

There are three supported protocol types, "active", "message_waiting" and "api"

• Active types:
  • Filtered
    • calls can be filtered on freeswitch event headers, multiple headers can be used, all must match.
    • filters format is "Key:Value,Key:Value,...."
    • Ex: Switch Incoming_Call "Home Phone" (Phone) {freeswitch="active:Call-Direction:inbound,Caller-Destination-Number:5555551212"}
    • see Freeswitch Events (opens new window) for more info on event headers
  • Non Filtered
    • if no filter is given any inbound call will be used
    • for multiple active calls the most recent active call's callerid will be displayed Ex: Incoming_Call "Home Phone" (Phone) {freeswitch="active}
  • Item Types
    • Switch will be on for an active call, off if no active calls
    • Call, this shows the destination and origination numbers
    • Text, this shows the Caller-ID fields (name : number) if sent by caller (regional specific I would imagine)
• Message_Waiting types:
  • Number, this shows the number of unread voice mails
  • Switch, on if MWI (message indicator) is yes.
• API types
  • String , sending a string to this will send a command to FS, the result will be sent back to this item as a comma seperated list
  • API types are really meant to be used in rules, an example might be:
    • sendCommand(FS_API,"conference test-conf dial sofia/gateway/myvoipprovider/5555551212 5551212 5551212")
    • This would tell freeswitch to dial 5555551212 into a conference named "test-conf"
    • the conference info would be returned as a update to the item.
  • see Freeswitch Commands (opens new window) for more info.

message_waiting takes an extra argument which is the mailbox we want to check against. This is usually the extention@domain

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