Comments on: Good Morning: Hotel-Style Wake Up Calls Return to Asterisk

By: Gary Fuqua

Gary Fuqua — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:36:17 +0000

Nice add on! I have it working in non-operator mode. I enable the operator mode, but I still don’t seem to be able to schedule a wakeup call for any other extension than the one I call on. I’m sure I’m missing something simple…

Thanks J. for your caller Id fix too!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 09 May 2011 02:48:30 +0000

I’m still figuring out what’s the role of the program to my business. I’m just so curious to make use of it.

By: J

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:30:44 +0000

I just thought I would let you know that on our system the Caller ID on the wakeup calls was always showing as unknown/unknown. I believe this is because it wraps the Caller ID name in quotes. On every installation we’ve had, I have found that you cannot wrap a Caller ID name in quotes even when you are explicitly instructed to do so (such as when setting up the Outbound CID for an extension) – I don’t know why that is, but it’s been true for us going all the way back to our first Asterisk@Home installation. Maybe others have had a different experience, but for us things break if we put the Caller ID name in quotes, and work fine if we don’t.

Anyway, I found that if I open up the /var/www/html/admin/modules/hotelwakeup/functions.inc.php file and edit the line (line 62 in my editor) that reads:

$sql .= ", `wakeupcallerid`=’\"{$calleridtext}\" ‘";

and change it to remove the two instances of \" so that it reads:

$sql .= ", `wakeupcallerid`='{$calleridtext} ‘";

That fixes the problem. Also I changed /var/www/html/admin/modules/hotelwakeup/page.hotelwakeup.php (line 118 in my editor) from:

echo """\n";

echo "\n";

to remove the two instances of " so that the quotes don’t display on the configuration page, however that’s strictly a cosmetic change that doesn’t affect the operation of the program.

I just thought I’d pass this along, in case anyone else is getting unknown/unknown for the Caller ID. It took me quite some time to figure out what the problem was, and then how to fix it.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:43:55 +0000

Note: PHP5 is needed. FreePBX works in PHP4 but this module does not, because of its use of class definitions introduced in PHP5.

[WM: Thanks for the tip. We’ve all gotten spoiled with PBX in a Flash. 🙂 ]

By: Brandon Hunnicutt

Brandon Hunnicutt — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:47:18 +0000

Ward – Do you know if anymore work has been done on the wake up call project where you have to answer a math question to make sure you’re up? I got it working a while back but since I lost that system I can’t seem to find a working version.