CallingCard Applications

Description

The CallingCard Applications consists of 3 Applications

For placing the call it will use Application LCDial instead of Asterisk cmd Dial if it is available. So you also get Least Cost Routing and Failover.

Features

Handle calling cards with variable credit, startpulse, frequency, tariffrates and announcements (everything can be configured per card)
Authenticate against CallerID
Authenticate with the use of a PIN (10 digits)
Number of simultaneous sessions per card can be configured per card basis (up to 255)
Least Cost Routing with the help of Application LCDial
Announce the remaining credit
Announce the maximal call time for the given destination number
Interupt the call if the card balance gets zero
Inform the caller about the call interupt 60 seconds before the call gets interupted
The Announcement Language can be configured on per card basis
Can be used with postgresql and mysql (mysql is preferred and better tested)
Can be compiled against asterisk cvs head (at time) and asterisk stable

Compile It

By default it compiles for the use with a mysql database – if you want to compile for use with a postgresql database then you have to comment these lines in app/Makefile

CFLAGS+=-DUSE_MYSQL
INCLUDE+= -I /usr/include/mysql
LIBS+= -lmysqlclient

and uncomment these lines

CFLAGS+=-DUSE_PGSQL
INCLUDE+= -I /usr/include/postgresql
ASTERISKINCLUDE=-I/usr/include/pgsql -I/usr/local/pgsql -I/usr/local/pgsql/include -I$(ASTERISKINCDIR)
LIBS+= -lpq

It assumes that the asterisk sources can be found at /usr/src/asterisk, that the asterisk modules directory is at /usr/lib/asterisk/modules and that the asterisk configuration is at /etc/asterisk/.
For compiling it you need to have already installed asterisk 😉 – and the mysql or postgresql client libary and header files.
From asterisk stable to asterisk cvs head the channel structure has changed a little bit – so if you want to compile against asterisk stable then you have to comment this “CFLAGS+=-DUSE_CVS” line to get it to compile (else you would get an error like “error: structure has no member named `cid'”

Configuration

Sounds

You will need to record and place the following sounds in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds; prepaid-and, prepaid-auth-fail, prepaid-card-in-use, prepaid-card-inactive, prepaid-cents, prepaid-dest-blocked, prepaid-dest-unreachable, prepaid-enter-card-num, prepaid-enter-dest, prepaid-euro, prepaid-final, prepaid-max-duration, prepaid-minute, prepaid-minutes, prepaid-no-aaa, prepaid-reseller-balance, prepaid-seconds, prepaid-three-failures, prepaid-you-have, prepaid-zero-balance. They are not included in the source code distribution or any of the Asterisk sound packages.

Help

If you are having trouble getting the application up and running and need professional help, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]

Management Interface

If you are looking for a management frontend or a turn-key-solution please get in touch with us: [email protected]