[Freeswitch-users] [Bulk] Re: att_xfer question

[Anthony Minessale]

Anyway, swap is not possible in attxfer, it could be coded as a new thing
but its not in there now and it would be rather complicated.
You could probably do it with bind_digit_action and a custom app in c or
lua etc.



On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:54 PM, João Mesquita <jmesquita at freeswitch.org>wrote:

> MC, this is true. IP Phones are expensive in Brazil and Argentina at
> least. If I recall correctly, the cheapest one I could find in Argentina
> goes for 66USD + taxes (21%) from Audiocodes (the smallest model).
> Nonethless it is pretty hard to find a phone/ATA these days that don't
> support transfers....
>
> The only valid use case I can think of is the one I described where you
> want an external application to control transfers (CTI application for
> example). But then again, att_xfer contributes very little to that if you
> want to have full control of it.
>
> Open source is this exactly, we can't make everyone happy and I can see
> that att_xfer is used by a very few ppl so I advocate to remove the
> application entirely. Specially because where it is implemented it is very
> hard to maintain and depends on the understanding of several parts of the
> core. Yet another task that sits on the lap of the core devs... Anyhow,
> just my 2 cents...
>
> João Mesquita
> FreeSWITCH™ Solutions
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>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Anthony Minessale <
>> anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can't the sip phone do this natively?
>>>
>> That was actually my first question several months ago when this first
>> came up. The answer give to me was that there are locations where buying a
>> SIP phone is severely cost prohibitive which means having the server do all
>> the work is a more viable option even though the feature hasn't actually
>> been built yet.
>>
>> Joao, let us know how this goes for you.
>>
>> -MC
>>
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