[Freeswitch-users] Conference Questions

[Anthony Minessale]

look at the "mad boss" extension in the default dialplan
conf/dialplan/default.xml to see how to craft an all-hands conference.
otherwise individual calls to originate to send people to the conference is
also ok.


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Alfredo Quiroga-Villamil <lawwton at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I've been using asterisk for a little bit over three years now. A
> couple of months ago I found out about freeswitch, took a look at it,
> thought it was interesting and moved on. A few weeks ago, I started
> looking at a project I've been wanting to work on for quite a while
> using conferences and started exploring systems and different
> approaches. Based on the requirements I have, I decided to use
> freeswitch. It seemed like it had the best support for conferencing so
> I went for it. According to some documentation I found it also seems
> to allow for more concurrent calls than asterisk which is an added
> bonus.
>
> I got a server ready, installed FC8 on it which is what I have in
> production now, unpacked freeswitch there and so far it's running
> beautifully. Very painless process really to get it installed, I was
> happy to see that. Configuration seems a bit different since it's XML;
> but being a developer myself I can see many advantages to having done
> that in the future as the system scales and grows in complexity.
>
> Sorry for the long introduction, getting to my question now. So ...
> What I want to be able to do is the following:
>
> Create and control conferences via the HTTP API. I've been reading a
> bit for the past two days the documentation and I am becoming more
> familiar now with how things are done using ESL, the support for PHP,
> perl and I believe others.
>
> a) It seemed to me like the way to setup the moderator of the
> conference is by setting a parameter in the DialPlan and specifying
> based on a condition who the moderator is, say for instance the
> destination number. That's fine and it makes sense, however, say that
> I am creating a new conference and I want to have 3 participants where
> one of them is the moderator. What would I have to do to specify that
> person A dialing for example number xxx-xxx-xxxx is the moderator (via
> HTTP)? Would I have to create my own call to the system and add say an
> entry to DialPlan with the right parameter for the moderator, then
> create the conference?
>
> b) When a conference is created, or when I go to create a new
> conference via HTTP using the API, does it allow for example for all
> numbers that will be added to be dialed at once? Or should the process
> be dial each participant, sending say 3 http requests via the API? The
> API command "conference dial" seems to only take one argument for
> destination number; but I am asking just in case I missed something.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help and I apologize for the long email.
>
> Alfredo
>
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