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Asterisk: Conferencing Server with LUA

Asterisk is a powerful telephone server. However, its configuration via extensions.conf is a little bit annoying, if you would really like to program your dialplan (e.g., if-then-else, read a file, execute some command line program, ...). The diaplan can also be implemented using LUA: extensions.lua.

Here, is a short demo setup for a telephone conference server that is reachable via telephone number using sipgate.de and a lua-based dialplan.

The server registers at sipgate.de, who provide a telephone number for the server. All incoming calls at the server are forward to a telephone conference room.

I used this setup from Asterisk 11 until Asterisk 13 running on a FreeBSD 10.X.

sip.conf:

 1 [general]
 2 allowguest=no
 3 alwaysauthreject=yes
 4 
 5 canreinvite=no
 6 
 7 disallow=allow
 8 allow=g711
 9 
10 ;SIPGATE This is the incoming uplink
11 register => USERNAME:PASSWORD@sipgate.de/USERNAME
12 
13 [trunk_incoming]
14 type=peer
15 host=sipgate.de
16 context=trunk_incoming

extensions.lua:

 1 extensions = {}
 2 
 3 extensions.trunk_incoming = {
 4     ["_X"] = function(c, e)
 5  app.playback("beep")
 6  
 7  app.read("room", "conf-getconfno")
 8  room = channel["room"]:get()
 9  if room == nil then
10      app.playback("beepErr")
11      app.hangup()
12  end
13 
14  app.verbose("Conference room " .. room .. ": " .. channel.CALLERID("num"):get() .. " entered")
15  app.playback("conf-enteringno")
16  app.sayDigits(room, "f")
17  
18  app.confBridge(room)
19     end;
20 }

NOTE: Asterisk does not reload the extensions.lua automatically even not using core reload. After configuration changes the module must be reloaded: module reload pbxlua.so_.

NOTE: The LUA-parser in Asterisk is very nitty-gritty. Be careful about using only spaces and align the code properly.

NOTE: The traffic is not encrypted. Take care of it yourself by setting up a IPSec-tunnel!