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Darren Schreiber
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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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Receiving and firing events


Events are FreeSWITCH's nervous system. They carry around information, commands, and feedback.

Tapping into the event flow will give your module a complete and real-time view of what's happening in each of the many components and subsystems of FreeSWITCH, from channels to reporting.

Firing events enables your module to actively participate in this flow, making information available that other modules can act upon in real time, or sending API commands as if typed in the console.

Events come in various types and subcategories. Each module can subscribe to ALL events or only to a certain subset, and then further filter to which event to react to based on the content of the event's oh so many fields:

In our implementation, we subscribed to ALL events during the LOAD function.

Then, in the example_event_handler(), function we filter the events flow based on event_id (the specific kind of event), and if the event is suitable, then we get a particular header (for example...

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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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