On November 30th, Asterisk GV outbound dialing started breaking for people. The cause was unknown, and it became more prevalent the next two days.
The symptoms are a continuous ringing for the outbound call with the following type of stuff in the logs:
[Dec 3 00:54:00] NOTICE[18023]: chan_gtalk.c:1942 gtalk_parser: Remote peer reported an error, trying to establish the call anyway
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The symptoms are a continuous ringing for the outbound call with the following type of stuff in the logs:
[Dec 3 00:54:00] NOTICE[18023]: chan_gtalk.c:1942 gtalk_parser: Remote peer reported an error, trying to establish the call anyway
Inbound calls (including those initiated from the website) are still functional. It's not clear what the cause is, but an issue has been filed with Asterisk upstream at https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18412
In the interim, I've come up with a way to fix the problem by reviving the old AGI dialer originally used with Asterisk 1.6, but reworking it to use Talk instead of Gizmo.
This involves some modifications to the dialplan to support using AGI instead. If you don't already have AGI setup, here's the basics for that:
1) Install AGI support for Asterisk:
opkg install asterisk18-res-agi
2) Create the AGI directory
mkdir -p /usr/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/
3) Fetch the updated AGI script from http://arctangent.net/~superm1/agi/google-voice-dialout.agi and save it in /usr/lib/asterisk/agi-bin. Modify it to include your login information for google.
cd /usr/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
chmod +x google-voice-dialout.agi
4) Modify your dialplan.
outbound
Instead of
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(Gtalk/superm1/${EXTEN}@voice.google.com)
Make the line
exten => _+1NXXNXXXXXX,1,AGI(google-voice-dialout.agi)
inbound
Add the following two rules:
exten => superm1@gmail.com, 1, GotoIf(${DB_EXISTS(gv_dialout/channel)}?bridged)
exten => superm1@gmail.com, n(bridged),Bridge(${DB_DELETE(gv_dialout/channel)}, p)
This will bridge outgoing calls with an incoming dialback handler.
As previously, i'll post my updated configs to http://www.arctangent.net/~superm1/gv_configs/. The way that i've implemented it is actually just a different AGI handler that's included. So when regular talk support is restored (as mentioned in https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18412) then it's a one line change to re-enable the standard outbound talk handler.
