[Freeswitch-users] Attended transfer to a conference room

Fri Sep 7 03:44:27 MSD 2012

Yes Sir, it pretty much sums up this use case. I also have phones that only support attended transfers and so it really is my only choice unless I use a PBX feature.

On Sep 6, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:

> Is the issue simply that you need to call into a conference and announce the user before completing the transfer?
> -MC
> 
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Emrah <lists at kavun.ch> wrote:
> Thanks Stanislav, your idea is good, but works only for incoming calls. I know we could trick the idea around to have it work for outbound calls as well, but it sounds to me as being too much of a workaround for something so trivial.
> 
> I'll play around some more and loop back my calls if I have to.
> 
> Thanks for this and have a good night,
> Emrah
> On Sep 6, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Emrah, I think this particular use case should be quite easy to program in a Lua script.
> > The incoming call is handed to the script, the script originates a call to the operator,
> > bridges them, then waits for operator's input, then hangs up the operator and bridges the A leg into the conference.
> >
> >
> > on the other side, why would anyone need a human operator in front of a conference bridge? 4 or 5 digits PIN usually works fine.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Emrah <lists at kavun.ch>
> >> To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> >> Cc:
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 5:57 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Attended transfer to a conference room
> >>
> >> Hi Anthony,
> >>
> >> The reason for the attended transfer to the conference call is to announce
> >> "manually" a new participant before releasing the transfer. E.g.: in
> >> the scenario where you have an operator transferring calling parties in a
> >> conference.
> >> Which of the two alternatives would be the most CPU efficient? A loopback or a
> >> SIP call to the same domain? I wish I could give a hand in the code, but my 2
> >> cents would be to optimize this at some point in your roadmap.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Emrah
> >> On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Anthony Minessale
> >> <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Oh,
> >>>
> >>> And you should try to avoid doing an attended transfer to
> >>> one-legged-calls like conference or ivr, blind transfers work better
> >>> for this because calls to apps are not bridged and the concept of
> >>> transferring becomes confusing.  The other alternative is to bridge to
> >>> the conference by looping the call over loopback or calling to the
> >>> same box on sip so there is a true bridge.  But blind transferring is
> >>> the best solution.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Anthony Minessale
> >>> <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> you are missing some of the sip and make sure its GIT HEAD (this
> >>>> should be on jira)
> >>>>
> >>>> sofia global siptrace on
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Emrah <lists at kavun.ch> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi MC,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks a bunch for your reply, sorry for the delay.
> >>>>> Here are my logs:
> >>>>> http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/19831
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any idea would be greatly appreciated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best,
> >>>>> Emrah
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Aug 28, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Michael Collins
> >> <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Go ahead and clean up the logs and put them on
> >> pastebin.freeswitch.org.
> >>>>>> -MC
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Emrah <lists at kavun.ch>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am experiencing a strange issue with SIP based attended
> >> transfers.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If I call a number via a gateway and attend-transfer it to a
> >> SIP phone, it works. If I do the same but transfer the call into a conference
> >> extension instead, the line that is being transfered is hanged up.
> >>>>>> There is no much activity on the SIP side of things, it seems
> >> to be very much related to FS.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Some info:
> >>>>>> I call out through a provider configured on the external
> >> profile, from a phone registered on the internal profile.
> >>>>>> It is not a codec conflict.
> >>>>>> Both lines are answered when I actually finalize the transfer.
> >>>>>> I tried with multiple phones and softphones.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I can clean up my logs and post them here, but if you guys have
> >> some info already it would be much appreciated.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Best,
> >>>>>> Emrah
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