[chan-capi-users] Question about BCHANNELINFO

[Armin Schindler]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Stefan-Michael Guenther wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2 or 3 weeks ago I started a thread about how to check whether all
> B-channels on an isdn card are busy. Some of you pointed me to the
> BCHANNEL-variable.
>
> This works perfectly for me on a simple FritzCard, but what happens if
> my asterisk server uses 2 isdn cards withs 4 ports on each card?
> How can I distinguish between the two cards?
>
> Another example: One of out clients has a 4 port card. The first port
> is for private use, the second port for one company and the other two
> ports ports for another company. Is there still a way to check, if e.g.
> only the two B-channels on the second port are busy?

I'm not sure what you mean.
On incoming call, chan_capi sets the BCHANNELINFO of *that* call. That 
doesn't mean that other channels are in use or not. It just gives the info 
if a bchannel is used for this call or not.

If your question is about outgoing calls and you want to know the amount of 
channels, you have a CLI command line 'capi show channels' or use a COUNT 
variable in the dialplan.

Armin