Conditional dump to VM

[AsherN (Asher Adam)]

Having some issues with random calls at night. I want to change my inbound processing to send all calls to VM between 2300 and 0700, except for about a half dozen DIDs (family, close friends). Is there a way to do this other than having an inbound route for every allowed number and a catch all for the rest?

All the number I want to exclude from the dump to VM are i the address book.

[lgaetz (Lorne Gaetz)]

I’m using this technique to whitelist, but not using phonebook, I’m using contact manager:

Of Robocalls and Whitelists

[The functionality of these scripts is largely superseded by the AllowList Module] … of cabbages and kings. I have several DIDs published for business purposes, and as time passes, they become incrementally more prone to robocalls. This is to the point now that robocalls may well outnumber legitimate calls, with some days being intolerable. The FreePBX blacklist is unable to deal with them effectively because there is no consistency to the Caller ID, nor have I wanted to force all callers to n…

[Stewart1 (Stewart)]

For only 6, having an Inbound Route for each VIP is probably easiest. But otherwise, create a Custom Destination with some code in extensions_custom.conf.

[custom-viptest]
exten => s,1,NoOp(CID:${CALLERID(num)})
exten => s,n,GotoIf(${DB_EXISTS(cidname/${CALLERID(num)})}?vip)
exten => s,n,Goto(timeconditions,3,1)
exten => s,n(vip),Goto(from-did-direct,1234,1)

Replace 3 with the proper timeconditions index and 1234 with your extension number

[AsherN (Asher Adam)]

It’s interesting, but my whitelist is not my entire phonebook. I’ll go with routes for now, until a better solution comes along.

[lgaetz (Lorne Gaetz)]

The script can be called with a contact mgr group name to only look in that one group.