Asterisk ARI create outbound call

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I'm trying to initiate calls using the ARI API, the process I followed was

POST /ari/channels to create channel 1 to the local extension
POST /ari/bridges to create a bridge
POST /ari/bridges/{bridge-id}/addChannel with channel 1
POST /ari/channels to create channel 2
POST /ari/bridges/{bridge-id}/addChannel with channel 2

I have a websocket connection waiting for the correct events (like channel status up) before calling the POSTs.

The problem I'm having is this works using internal extension numbers for channel 1 and channel 2, but when using an external number for channel 2 I get the error - "Allocation failed".

Any ideas where I'm going wrong...

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '19 at 14:42

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Im creating my calls via ARI like this:

http://{ARIUser}:{ARIPass}@localhost:8088/ari/channels?endpoint=SIP/{exten to call from}&extension={number/exten to call}&context=from-internal&priority=1&callerId={callerID}

answered Jun 06 '19 at 14:42

Yitzchok Dancziger

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Thank u, it worked for me. caller is 1110 and called is 1120. `curl -v -u user:password -X POST "http://192.168.141.235:8088/ari/channels?endpoint=PJSIP/1110&extension=1120&context=from-internal&priority=1&callerId=1110"` – zichen.L Dec 20 '19 at 23:05
This works for internal calls extension to extension any idea how to make an outbound call to a cell phone? – DevTurtle Aug 20 '21 at 21:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '15 at 08:29

When you create channel with ARI to address "/ari/channels" you MUST define "extension" or "application" parameters (read more https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+12+Channels+REST+API#Asterisk12ChannelsRESTAPI-originate).

Digitum make very unusable Python ari module and you may play with my module (now not implemented events) on https://github.com/vit1251/ari2.

Asterisk ARI create outbound call

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