Small script to record calls on Asterisk on the fly

 Sometimes there is a need to record ongoing call on Asterisk, where usually there is no recording (due to GDPR or smth like this). Usual way with mixmonitor start in CLI requires a channel ID, which is usually not at hand.

 Small script that will get calls with caller and/or callee numbers (based on assumption, that these numbers are available in Asterisk channel name) and put recordings of them in /tmp directory. Separated for A/B legs and mixed.

Made for myself to simplify some tasks and not to look for it again.

Usage:

./call_record.sh <CALLER_NUM> [<CALLEE_NUM>]

call_record.sh

#!/bin/bash

NUM_1=${1:-"DUMMY"}
NUM_2=${2:-"DUMMY"}

CHANNELS=$(asterisk -rx 'core show channels' | grep -E "${NUM_1}|${NUM_2}" | awk '{print $1}')

if [ -z ${CHANNELS} ]; then
    echo "Cannot find channel"
    exit 0
fi

DATE=$(date '+%F-%H-%M-%S')
ID=1

for CHANNEL in $CHANNELS; do

    DIRNAME=/tmp/${DATE}-${NUM_1}-${NUM_2}

    mkdir -p ${DIRNAME}

    REC_COMMAND=`echo ${DIRNAME}/${ID}-mix.wav,r'('${DIRNAME}/${ID}-in.wav')'t'('${DIRNAME}/${ID}-out.wav')'`

    echo "Recording ${ID} at ${DIRNAME}"

    asterisk -rx "mixmonitor start ${CHANNEL} ${REC_COMMAND}"
    
    ID=$[ ${ID} + 1 ]

done