How to catch a chat message?

[sysart]

We'd like to catch incoming text messages and answer them automatically.

But we don't know the time a message arrive and from who. So, I guess, we cannot use SKYPE_CHAT_RECEIVE (it requires timeout and skypeid of sender).

Is there any way to do it with no AMI-magic?

[malcolmd]

You can't use that function to wait on a line indefinitely; you have to define a timeout for it to wait before it moves to the next step in the dialplan. You can use the SkypeChatSend app to send a message to a caller.

[sysart]

So, I can't catch a randomly incoming message? I understand that Asterisk is not a chat engine, but it still looks weird.

[malcolmd]

No, you can't set that function to exist as its own thread inside of the dialplan. Those function calls have timeouts and wait that time while then going on in the dialplan.

[pistenstuermer]

I have the same problem. I want to have an autoresponse sent to everyone who sends us a message, telling them we can't support chat and they should call us. Can this be achieved somehow?