[Linphone-users] Re: Running linphonec as a daemon

[Alastair Johnson]

> Hello,
>
> Is it currently possible to tell linphonec to dial a call, hang up,
> and terminate the program when the call is done, all from shell
> scripts?  I am trying to implement linphonec as a backgrounded auto-
> dialer on a kiosk-mode linux-based web-based contact centre
> application.  It is now possible in recent linphone versions to
> initiate the process and dial a call from the command line (linphonec
> -s sipurl) , however when the call is done, linphonec keeps running
> and doesn't exit.  There also seems to be no way to tell linphonec to
> hang up from outside of the program once a call has been placed,
> other than by killing its process.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> ---
> Steve Steffler, IT Manager
> Suggitt Group Ltd.
> Phone: 780-702-0147, Fax: 780-702-1900
>

linphone now has hooks to support control by external apps. It should be 
relatively simple to write a wrapper prog that does what you want if linphone 
can't do it already. Take a look at the code for yeaphone to see how it 
works.
http://www.devbase.at/voip/yeaphone.php