[Freeswitch-users] Conference Questions

Fri Jan 15 12:28:07 PST 2010

look up the originate api instead of conference dial

originate /dial/string conference:myconf+flags{foo} inline


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Alfredo Quiroga-Villamil <lawwton at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Anthony:
>
> I think I spoke too soon. I looked at the example; but I was under the
> impression based on your previous comment that I would be able to
> invoke the conference dial api command over HTTP and specify the flags
> as part of the dial string. The wiki page has the following for the
> API call I am thinking:
>
> dial
>
> Dial a destination via a specific endpoint (ie. call mom from the
> conference).
>
> Usage: conference <confname> dial [{dial string
> options}]<endpoint_module_name>/<destination> [<callerid_number>
> [<callerid_name>]]
>
> I would like to specify the privilege in this api call. Is that
> doable? If not how could I accomplish it? Would I be able to pass the
> flags in {dial string options}?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help,
>
> Alfredo
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Alfredo Quiroga-Villamil
> <lawwton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Awesome! That's even nicer.
> >
> > Appreciate it.
> >
> > Alfredo Q-V
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Anthony Minessale
> > <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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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