UserEvent doesn't send uniqueid in message body

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

Hi all

I’m using asterisk manager interface and using UserEvents, all events looks like this (tcp capture)

Event: Newchannel
Privilege: call,all
Channel: SIP/20122-00000008
ChannelState: 0
ChannelStateDesc: Down
CallerIDNum: 20122
CallerIDName:
AccountCode:
Exten: 22
Context: context
Uniqueid: bender-1267714062.8

UserEvent looks like:

Event: UserEvent
Privilege: user,all
UserEvent: CallMove

Is there any way that asterisk also automaticly adds Uniqueid field?
I’ve ‘manually’ solver like:

exten => s,n,UserEvent(CallMove,Context: error-agi,Uniqueid: ${CDR(uniqueid)})

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Not all events relate to a channel, so UniqueID isn’t relevant for them. User events can also be generated from AMI itself. One could argue that the dialplan application way of doing so always has a channel involved, but that channel might not have any meaning for the event. I suspect the same code is involved with both AMI originated user events and dialplan originated ones.

Incidentally, ${UNIQUEID} is probably simpler, and may be more accurate, than using ${CDR…

You could, of course, change the source code.

3

Nope, I i edit the source code, and it is a local function in app_userevent.c, which can be easily changed.
I didn’t even know an UserEvent can be generated in AMI, it’s interesting, who would receive that event? the other connected managers?

4

Remember one use of AMI is in call centres, and each agent may have their own AMI client. Sometimes one might want to use that interface to signal between agents.