[Freeswitch-users] Conference Questions

Fri Jan 15 09:02:09 PST 2010

the flags are set as part of the dial string so you can easily choose that,
int the example I told you to look at notice the +flags{} bit at the end of
some of the dial strings.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Alfredo Quiroga-Villamil <
lawwton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Appreciate the fast response Anthony.
>
> Response or ideas on how to implement a) ?
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alfredo Q-V
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Anthony Minessale
> <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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