CHANNEL()

Synopsis

Gets/sets various pieces of information about the channel.

Description

Gets/sets various pieces of information about the channel, additional item may be available from the channel driver; see its documentation for details. Any item requested that is not available on the current channel will return an empty string.

Syntax

CHANNEL(item)

Arguments

• item - Standard items (provided by all channel technologies) are:
  • audioreadformat - R/O format currently being read.
  • audionativeformat - R/O format used natively for audio.
  • audiowriteformat - R/O format currently being written.
  • callgroup - R/W call groups for call pickup.
  • pickupgroup - R/W call groups for call pickup.
  • channeltype - R/O technology used for channel.
  • checkhangup - R/O Whether the channel is hanging up (1/0)
  • language - R/W language for sounds played.
  • musicclass - R/W class (from musiconhold.conf) for hold music.
  • name - The name of the channel
  • parkinglot - R/W parkinglot for parking.
  • rxgain - R/W set rxgain level on channel drivers that support it.
  • secure_bridge_signaling - Whether or not channels bridged to this channel require secure signaling
  • secure_bridge_media - Whether or not channels bridged to this channel require secure media
  • state - R/O state for channel
  • tonezone - R/W zone for indications played
  • transfercapability - R/W ISDN Transfer Capability, one of:
    • SPEECH
    • DIGITAL
    • RESTRICTED_DIGITAL
    • 3K1AUDIO
    • DIGITAL_W_TONES
    • VIDEO
  • txgain - R/W set txgain level on channel drivers that support it.
  • videonativeformat - R/O format used natively for video
  • trace - R/W whether or not context tracing is enabled, only available if CHANNEL_TRACE is defined.
    chan_sip provides the following additional options:
  • peerip - R/O Get the IP address of the peer.
  • recvip - R/O Get the source IP address of the peer.
  • from - R/O Get the URI from the From: header.
  • uri - R/O Get the URI from the Contact: header.
  • useragent - R/O Get the useragent.
  • peername - R/O Get the name of the peer.
  • t38passthrough - R/O 1 if T38 is offered or enabled in this channel, otherwise 0
  • rtpqos - R/O Get QOS information about the RTP stream
    This option takes two additional arguments:
    Argument 1:
    audio Get data about the audio stream
    video Get data about the video stream
    text Get data about the text stream
    Argument 2:
    local_ssrc Local SSRC (stream ID)
    local_lostpackets Local lost packets
    local_jitter Local calculated jitter
    local_maxjitter Local calculated jitter (maximum)
    local_minjitter Local calculated jitter (minimum)
    {{local_normdevjitter}}Local calculated jitter (normal deviation)
    local_stdevjitter Local calculated jitter (standard deviation)
    local_count Number of received packets
    remote_ssrc Remote SSRC (stream ID)
    {{remote_lostpackets}}Remote lost packets
    remote_jitter Remote reported jitter
    remote_maxjitter Remote calculated jitter (maximum)
    remote_minjitter Remote calculated jitter (minimum)
    {{remote_normdevjitter}}Remote calculated jitter (normal deviation)
    {{remote_stdevjitter}}Remote calculated jitter (standard deviation)
    remote_count Number of transmitted packets
    rtt Round trip time
    maxrtt Round trip time (maximum)
    minrtt Round trip time (minimum)
    normdevrtt Round trip time (normal deviation)
    stdevrtt Round trip time (standard deviation)
    all All statistics (in a form suited to logging, but not for parsing)
  • rtpdest - R/O Get remote RTP destination information.
    This option takes one additional argument:
    Argument 1:
    audio Get audio destination
    video Get video destination
    text Get text destination
    chan_iax2 provides the following additional options:
  • peerip - R/O Get the peer's ip address.
  • peername - R/O Get the peer's username.
    chan_dahdi provides the following additional options:
  • dahdi_channel - R/O DAHDI channel related to this channel.
  • dahdi_span - R/O DAHDI span related to this channel.
  • dahdi_type - R/O DAHDI channel type, one of:
    • analog
    • mfc/r2
    • pri
    • pseudo
    • ss7
  • keypad_digits - R/O PRI Keypad digits that came in with the SETUP message.
  • reversecharge - R/O PRI Reverse Charging Indication, one of:
    • -1 - None
    • {{ 1}} - Reverse Charging Requested
  • no_media_path - R/O PRI Nonzero if the channel has no B channel. The channel is either on hold or a call waiting call.
  • buffers - W/O Change the channel's buffer policy (for the current call only)
    This option takes two arguments:
    Number of buffers,
    Buffer policy being one of:
    full
immediate
half
  • echocan_mode - W/O Change the configuration of the active echo canceller on the channel (if any), for the current call only.
    Possible values are:
    {{on}}Normal mode (the echo canceller is actually reinitalized)
    {{off}}Disabled
    {{fax}}FAX/data mode (NLP disabled if possible, otherwise completely disabled)
    {{voice}}Voice mode (returns from FAX mode, reverting the changes that were made)
    chan_ooh323 provides the following additional options:
  • faxdetect - Fax Detect [R/W]
    Returns 0 or 1
    Write yes or no
  • t38support - t38support [R/W]
    Returns 0 or 1
    Write yes or no
  • h323id - Returns h323id [R]

Import Version

This documentation was imported from Asterisk Version SVN-branch-10-r383982