Change call recording location

General Help
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I am trying to find a way to change the storage location for recorded calls. The currently record on my root partition to /var/spool/asterisk/monitor and then by year, month and date. I would like to direct them to record in a special directory on my home partition since it has a lot more room. Does anyone know if this can be done?

I already tried changing the line in /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf

astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk

to

astspooldir => /home/justin/asterisk-recordings (I made that directory prior to this)

But that didnā€™t work.

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  • Settings
    • Advanced Setings
      • Override Call Recording Location
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I donā€™t have that option. Iā€™m using Asterisk Ver. 11.11.0 Freepbx Ver. 2.11.0.38

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You have the option. You just need to turn on display read only settings and hidden settings

5

keep in mind some things are hidden for your safetyā€¦ Use with care.

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That worked! Thanks guys!

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Quick follow up to this. Now the option to listen to or download my recordings in my user portal doesnā€™t show up. Do I need to change something to tell the user panel to look in this other directory?

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//if $amp_conf['MIXMON_DIR'] is set use it, else use the spool dir ('/var/log/asterisk') +  /spool

$monitor_base = $amp_conf['MIXMON_DIR'] ? $amp_conf['MIXMON_DIR'] : $amp_conf['ASTSPOOLDIR'] . '/monitor'; 
//Path above + /year + /month + /day + /recording file name
$recordingfile = "$monitor_base/$fyear/$fmonth/$fday/" . $value['recordingfile'];

The setting you changed sets MIXMON_DIR

So this should be good for new recordings.

You need to rsync the old recordings over to the new location.

So your old (pre change) recordings are in /var/spool/asterisk/monitor

It simply gets the file name from the CDR so it is looking for /my/new/dir/filename.ext

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I think that makes sense. So I probably just have the new location named wrong.

It is currently:

/home/asterisk-recordings/[YEAR]/[MONTH]/[DAY]

So should I change it to:

/home/asterisk-recordings/spool/monitor/[YEAR]/[MONTH]/[DAY]

Iā€™m not worried about the old recordings showing up, just the new recordings from now on.

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Try again

/home/asterisk-recordings/monitor

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Well, Iā€™m still not getting it to show up.

I have the recordings saving to /home/asterisk-recordings/monitor/

I have given both asterisk-recordings and monitor directories 777 permissions and asterisk ownership.

The recordings are definitely saving in that directory. Technically saving at /home/asterisk-recordings/monitor/[YEAR]/[MONTH]/[DAY]

I still canā€™t get it to show up on the user portal.

Do I need to change any other setting?

[root@localhost /]# cd /home/asterisk-recordings/monitor/2014/08/06/
[root@localhost 06]# ls
force-5152982333-353-20140806-145053-1407354653.4.wav force-5159789010-unknown-20140806-145002-1407354602.0.wav
force-5159789010-unknown-20140806-144657-1407354417.74.wav force-8556392046-unknown-20140806-145144-1407354704.6.wav

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Actually I read what james wrote is completely wrong and I also misread it because of a newline break on the forums. The path is actually just going to be: ā€œ/home/asterisk-recordingsā€ that is it. No monitor, no var, no spool.

In the format of:

/home/asterisk-recordings/[YEAR]/[MONTH]/[DAY]

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Thatā€™s what I started with but the recordings didnā€™t show up in the user portal.

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Looking at the code says it will work. You can do this yourself. locate callmonitor.module go to line 233, after that line type: dbug($recordingfile);

run: amportal a dbug

refresh the webpage.

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I updated my postā€¦ killed my misread and added comments in the code blockā€¦ clarified in the post ( I hope)

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I canā€™t find that file anywhere

[root@localhost asterisk]# find -name callmonitor.module
[root@localhost asterisk]#

Iā€™m thinking about just leaving it as it is and see if it starts working. In the past I have had problems with stuff showing up in the monitor column in the user panel. Then the next day they would be there. Hoping thatā€™s my problem.

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If that file doesnā€™t exist then you wouldnā€™t see anything, like the page wouldnā€™t load. Just running ā€œfindā€ at the root level directory doesnā€™t work, especially if you are in /home or some other place. Use a better command for finding files, a faster command!

updatedb
locate callmmonitor.module
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Actually, without ā€˜-printā€™, it will just return true or false if the file is foundā€¦ You probably want something like

find /var/www/html -name callmonitor* -print
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Found the file. It is located at:

/var/www/html/recordings/modules/callmonitor.module

I placed the code on line 233, this is what it looks like

                            $monitor_base = $amp_conf['MIXMON_DIR'] ? $amp_conf['MIXMON_DIR'] : $amp_conf['ASTSPOOLDIR'] . '/monitor';
                            $recordingfile = "$monitor_base/$fyear/$fmonth/$fday/" . $value['recordingfile'];

dbug($recordingfile)
if (!file_exists($recordingfile)) {
$recordingfile = ā€˜ā€™;

Assuming maybe I need to place it on line 235 below $recordingfile="; ?
Ran ā€œamportal a dbugā€ and refrshed the page. It broke.

==> /var/log/asterisk/freepbx_dbug <==
2014-Aug-06 16:16:28 /var/www/html/admin/modules/cxpanel/brand.php:3
[WARNING]: file_get_contents(/etc/schmooze/operator-panel-brand): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

==> /var/log/httpd/error_log <==
[Wed Aug 06 16:16:28 2014] [error] [client 192.168.1.106] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in /var/www/html/recordings/modules/callmonitor.module on line 235

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Youā€™re killing me here. Notice the semicolon at the end of my string, you need to use it.