[Serusers] Session-Timers for Prepaid

[Sebastian Kühner]

Hi Stuart,

I'm with the same problem at this moment. I have a billing system on my
server with asterisk (credit, rates, call-cost, ...) and it works fine with
ser, too (with some TRIGGERS in the postgres database). I'm also able to
send "BYE" messages to the caller/callee to terminate the call... but I
still have to make it manually.

You wrote that have a process which runs periodically... how did you make
that? You wrote your own C-program? It would be nice to have a good command
line-timer in which you can put the sipsak command lines for every call...

Thanks

Sebastian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Kirkwood - Jubilee Consultancy Limited"
<stuart at jubileeconsultancy.com>
To: "'Jan Janak'" <jan at iptel.org>
Cc: <serusers at lists.iptel.org>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: [Serusers] Session-Timers for Prepaid


> Hi Jan,
>
> My solution for disconnecting calls where the customer has run out of
credit
> is to use SER to generate a BYE to the gateway. I use exec_dset and
exec_msg
> from ser.cfg to store in a MySQL table some fields from the INVITE and ACK
> messages that setup the call.  Then I have a process which runs
periodically
> on my server that queries the table to find calls that need to be
> disconnected and generates, using the SER fifo, a BYE message to the Cisco
> gateway which disconnects the call.  Not very elegant solution but it
> appears to work and I don't have to handle the media stream.  I could also
> send a BYE to the phone but I don't do that at the moment.
>
> Please could you tell us about how you are solving this problem in
> production systems?  I expect you have a more elegant and professional
> solution.
>
> Regards
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: serusers-bounces at iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org] On
> Behalf Of Jan Janak
> Sent: 08 July 2005 19:28
> To: Daryl Sanders
> Cc: serusers at lists.iptel.org
> Subject: Re: [Serusers] Session-Timers for Prepaid
>
> I tried this a long time ago with a Cisco gateway. It worked, SER
> did not let re-INVITEs through and the gateway terminated the call. We
> are not using it anywhere in production.
>
>   Jan.
>
> On 02-07-2005 06:48, Daryl Sanders wrote:
> > I know there was some discussion in the recently about using
> > session-timers as a method for doing prepaid. I'm just wondering if
> > anyone has actually played around with this, and what your experiences
> > were? My PSTN Gateways support session-timers, so I was thinking about
> > trying this.
> >
> > - Daryl
> >
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