Time based rules for outgoing dialing plan

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

In my country we have some carriers who have different tariffs in different parts of the day (busy time vs. less busy time). Consequently, if you want to create a fully optimized least cost routing table you need some time based rules.
Can we do that, or am I asking for a new feature?

2

You should be able to do this, try use the GotoIfTime dialplan command, voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+GotoIfTime .

Cheers.

Marco Bruni

3

I knew about this command. I just used it for menues so far. So, it took me a while to come up with somthing that will work for outgoing:
[main_outgoing_context]
exten = _X.,1,NoOp(Off Peak)
exten = _X.,n,GotoIfTime(19:00-23:59|sun-thu||?off_peak_numberplan,${EXTEN:0},1)
exten = _X.,n,GotoIfTime(00:00-07:00|sun-thu||?off_peak_numberplan,${EXTEN:0},1)
exten = _X.,n,NoOp(The rest is Peak time)
exten = _X.,n,Goto(peak_time_numberplan,${EXTEN:0},1)

Let me know if I got it right, or you think there is anything better I can do.

4

Seems right to me.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni