Asterisk ARI Client Listen to All incoming calls

Question

How to detect incoming calls immediately after answering calls using asterisk node ari client. Does asterisk ARI have an event to detect incoming calls or do we have to make a request every few seconds to view channels with answered status?

Answer 1

Yes, ARI have "ARI events" and you can look for "NEW_CHANNEL" event. After that do redirect

However you will need dialplan support anyway, otherwise system will become not supportable in very short time.

Answer 2

You will need not ARI but AMI ( Asterisk Manager Interface ) for that. You don't need to modify the dialplan, just open a socket to the AMI port (default 5038) and listen to the events there. You can find a list will all emitted events on the official documentation .

If you need to check a call after the answer event, then you probably need to listen for the NewState event , having the ChannelStateDesc property equal to Up .

If you are using Queues, then it is even easier, as you can just listen for the AgentConnect event.