Detecting If 911 Is Called From Any Phone

[lgaetz (Lorne Gaetz)]

There may well be a way to do this with AMI, but I think it would be easier to hook the dialplan and check for the channel variable EMERGENCYROUTE = YES then make the API call in dialplan.

Hooking for fun and income

Despite the frequency with which it arises here in the forum, there is not yet a good resource for learning to use dialplan hooks in FreePBX. This will probably end up in the wiki at some point, but until that happens, here are the broad strokes for leveraging dialplan hooks in FreePBX 14. What is a dialplan hook? A dialplan hook refers to several pre-defined FreePBX contexts that exist solely for users to add their own Asterisk Macros to be run at specific locations in the call flow. They all …