originate command

[wdaniel]

Hello,
I'm trying to dial out from the terminal using the originate command.

internal works fine
asterisk -rx "originate SIP/701 application Playback hello-world"

but when trying to dial out nothing
asterisk -rx "originate SIP/(trunk name)/(external number) application Playback hello-world"

i know its not much of an explanation, but I'm not sure what I'm missing from the external. i know my trunk works, i can call out on it.
my goal is to call a phone number and play a message.
Thanks.

[navaismo]

Most ISP do not allow the calls from cli because you are sending like anonymous, but better to check the sip debug and find where the call fails

[david55]

ITSPs rejecting anonymous calls isn't something I have heard of before. On the other hand, too many of them accept faked caller IDs!

If that really is the problem, use a local channel on the A side, so that you can explicitly set the caller ID.

[ambiorixg12]

When you use originate command to initiate the call, anonymous is used as the username on the sip uri : example '"Anonymous<sip:anonymous@sip.rapidvox.com>;

as anonymous is not a valid user

For this reason your carrier will reject the call. Most of the time this problem can be solved adding the fromuser option in your trunk settings.

[david55]

Some ITSPs may reject the call.

Generally fromuser covers cases where the ITSP uses the From header to identify the account, typically in the case of ITSPs that are providing a service for individual phones, not for PABXes. Normally if they do that, you will need to use fromuser even if a caller ID is available to Asterisk.

In Asterisk terms, the ITSP end is configured as host=dynamic; type=user, whereas, for PABX support, host=dynamic, type=peer is better.

[wdaniel]

thanks all, i got it to work just by adding local and forwarding 701 to external phone number. its a hack but it works.

asterisk -rx "originate local/701 application Playback hello-world"

i will try other ways.

on a side note, how would all of you initiate an external call from the linux command line and play a message to the receiver.