tutorial: use astercrm & asterisk for broadcasting
in this tutorial, it will guide u how to broadcast your message in asterisk and astercrm.
1. add outbound context in asterisk
add the following content in your dialplan (like extensions.conf)
[for-outbound]
exten => _X.,1,Dial(SIP/yourtrunk/${EXTEN},45)
exten => _X.,n,Hangupexten => h,1,NoOp(${DIALSTATUS})
exten => h,n,Hangup
here “yourtrunk” should be defined in your sip conf file, or you can use other trunk you have, like IAX2, ZAP, DAHD I…
2. add inbound context in asterisk
add the following content in your dialplan (like extensions.conf)
[for-collection]
exten => _X.,1,NoOp(${EXTEN})
exten => _X.,Background(YOURMESSAGE)
exten => _X.,n,Hangupexten => 1,1,Queue(1000); means when customer press 1 when it’s playing, he will reach your queue 1000
exten => h,1,Hangup()
then it will look like
3. add group in astercrm
login astercrm as admin, then go to extension->group admin, add a group for this broadcasting project
4. add campaign in astercrm
then go to diallist->campaign, add a campaign, in outcontext and incontext, we will put the context we added before, for-outbound and for-collection
5. upload the diallist
you can upload a excel/cvs file to diallist, or you can insert record to diallist table using your script
numbers.csv
import:
6. start the dialer
then u can go to dialer page to enable the campaign, also you can set a limitation of the max outbound calls there
7. set a time limitation
if you only want it dial at spcific time, you can add a time package for the campaign. first add some time
diallist -> worktime
then create a work time package and add the worktime in
then set the campaign to use this work time package
8. check dial result
go to diallist -> dialedlist, you can find the result
hope this post can help you create ur first broadcasting campaign, and u can also improve on this, like u can use a script to insert to diallist automaticly or set some survey so customer can press in their option when listening to your message.
