Help about playback in .call files

[mdinkov]

Hello,
I am beginner in Asterisk.
I pass .call files with argument for Playback(), for example (SetVar: Sound=custom/1_Messages0201&custom/20c…).
But when this string is more than 240 characters an error occurred, otherwise call pass without errors

NOTICE[19354] pbx_spool.c: Syntax error at line 10 of /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/333.call

and sound file after 240-th character is trimmed

Unable to open custom/1_Mess (format (alaw)): No such file or directory

I know about limitation in dial string:

Note: Up until and including Asterisk 1.2 the length of the Dial string cannot exceed about 240 characters (any exceeding characters will be truncated). This limitation has been removed in Asterisk 1.4, unless you have set LOW_MEMORY in the compile options.

Is there any way to remove this limitation, or to increase dial string size

Asterisk version:

Asterisk 11.2.1 built by root @ ip-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX on a x86_64 running Linux

Dial plan:

exten => 123,1,AGI(monitor.php,outgoing,Outgoing_UNLIMITED,${CALLERID(num)},${EXTEN},Set(CALLERID(num)=024372202)) exten => 123,1,Dial(SIP/6845987568/${EXTEN:0},30,T) exten => 123,2,Set(CDR(userfield)=${NumberDialed}) exten => 123,3,Playback(${Sound})

Call file:

Channel: SIP/XXXXX/XXXXXX CallerID: XXXXXXX MaxRetries: 2 RetryTime: 15 Context: XXXXXX Extension: 123 Priority: 1 Account: XXXXXX SetVar: Sound=custom/1_Messages0201&custom/20c&custom/i&custom/1om&custom/March&custom/2c&custom/hiliadi&custom/i&custom/13of&custom/godina&custom/1_Messages0202&custom/3c&custom/3c&custom/3c&custom/3c&custom/3c&custom/3c&custom/3c&custom/3c&custom/1_Messages0203&custom/200c&custom/50c&custom/i&custom/6c&custom/leva&custom/i&custom/70c&custom/i&custom/8c&custom/stotinki&custom/1_Messages0204 SetVar: NumberDialed=XXXXXXXX

[dejanst]

Probaly not without a massive source code change.

Wouldn’t it be eazier to shorten the names of files?

[mdinkov]

Thanks for the answer.
Unfortunately I have no control over the file names.
Till now I solve my problems with following changes in my dialplan:

exten => 123,3,Set(i=1);
exten => 123,n,While($[${i} <= ${file_max}])
exten => 123,n,Playback(${file${i}})
exten => 123,n,Set(i=$[ ${i} + 1 ])
exten => 123,n,EndWhile

[loway_ch]

You could have multiple SetVars like sound1, sound2 and so on and you could scan them at the dialplan level. What are you building?

[mdinkov]

I have multiple Setvar’s and use them in my dialplan:

Channel: SIP/XXXXXX/XXXXX CallerID: XXXXXX MaxRetries: 2 RetryTime: 60 Context: XXXXXX Extension: 123 Priority: 1 Account: XXXXXXX Setvar: NumberDialed=XXXXX Setvar: file_max=31 Setvar: file1=custom/1_Messages0201 Setvar: file2=custom/20c Setvar: file3=custom/i Setvar: file4=custom/1om Setvar: file5=custom/March Setvar: file6=custom/2c Setvar: file7=custom/hiliadi Setvar: file8=custom/i Setvar: file9=custom/13of Setvar: file10=custom/godina Setvar: file11=custom/1_Messages0202 Setvar: file12=custom/3c Setvar: file13=custom/3c Setvar: file14=custom/3c Setvar: file15=custom/3c ..........

exten => 123,3,Set(i=1); exten => 123,n,While($[${i} <= ${file_max}]) exten => 123,n,Playback(${file${i}}) exten => 123,n,Set(i=$[ ${i} + 1 ]) exten => 123,n,EndWhile

[tgwaste]

Hi,
Is there any solution here for playing files to a conf bridge instead?

Im currently doing:

Channel: Local/s@announce
Set: ARG1=2
Application: Playback
Data: /files (where this is a bunch of sound&files&to&play)

Dial plan:

[announce]
exten => s,1,NoOp
same => n,Answer
same => n,ConfBridge(${ARG1},bridge,user)
same => n,Hangup

but I am running into the (very very stupid and archaic) 240 char limit. Any way around this?

Asterisk 14.2.0