Call Recording

Call recording allow the user of the administrator to record a user’s conversation. Recorded files are stored on the Wazo server and are accessible using the web interface.

Enabling

There are many ways to enable call recording. It can be done by the administrator or the user himself.

Administrator

The administrator can enable call recording from the user form in the web interface.

../../_images/webi_call_recording.png

User

The user can enable and disable call recording using the *26 extension on its phone. The user can also enable call recording during a call using the *3 extension during the conversation.

Call Recording Management

Extensions

The extensions for call recording and online call recording are available in the web interface in the extension form.

../../_images/webi_call_recording_extensions.png

Disable user call control management

To disable call recording for user, disable the Call recording extension in the web interface.

To disable online call recording, uncheck the Enable online call recording option in the user form.

../../_images/webi_online_call_recording.png

Files

Recorded files are available in the web interface in the Audio files, monitor menu.

../../_images/webi_call_recording_files.png

Recordings are located in /var/spool/asterisk/monitor

File names

The file names for call recording can be customized using [Jinja2](http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/2.9/templates/) templates.

The following variables can be used in the file name:

  • srcnum: The caller ID number of the caller
  • dstnum: The called extension
  • timestamp: A unix timestamp
  • local_time: The formated date in the server’s timezone
  • utc_time: The formated date in UTC
  • base_context: The context in which this call entered the Wazo dialplan
  • tenant_name: The originating context’s entity

Example 1:

Creating recording in a sub-directory for each entity

A file with the following content in /etc/xivo-agid/conf.d/call_recording.yml:

call_recording:
  filename_template: "{{ tenant_name }}/{{ utc_time }}-{{ srcnum }}-{{ dstnum }}"

This configuration would write the files in /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/<tenant_name/. The name of the files would be <utc_time>-<srcnum>-<dstnum>.wav

Example 2:

Creating recording in another directory

A file with the following content in /etc/xivo-agid/conf.d/call_recording.yml:

call_recording:
  filename_template: "/home/pcm/call/user-{{ srcnum }}-{{ dstnum }}-{{ timestamp }}"

This configuration would write the files in the /home/pcm/call directory. The name of the files would be user-<srcnum>-<dstnum>-<timestamp>.wav. Which is the default with another location.

Note

recording that are not directly in /var/spool/asterisk/monitor will not be shown in the web interface.

Note

Asterisk needs write permission to be able to write the recordings in the configured directory.

The filename for online call recording cannot be configured from the configuration file but can be modified using a pre-process subroutine.

The file format is always auto-timestamp-<TOUCH_MIXMONITOR>.wav. TOUCH_MIXMONITOR is a channel variable that can be set before the call starts.

File extensions

For online call recording, the file format can be modified using the TOUCH_MIXMONITOR_FORMAT channel variable.

For call recording the default value is wav and can be modified with a configuration file.

Example:

Add a file names /etc/xivo-agid/conf.d/recording.yml with the following content:

call-recording:
  filename_extension: wav