[Freeswitch-users] Custom variables for mod_conference

Duvid Rottenberg adrottenberg at gmail.com
Wed May 28 19:15:36 MSD 2014


I have some similar features, and I accomplish that by storing the
Conference-Unique-ID in my application and use that as a key to store the
state in my application instead of in Freeswitch.

Duvid Rottenberg


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Phil Dunks <phil.dunks at netdev.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi Michael
>
> Thanks for looking at this - I have submitted a patch in FS-6559.
>
> Let me explain the reason that the feature would be useful to us.
>
> We have an application layer that provides customer specific conference
> features via mod_conference.
>
> We wish to further develop this to provide potential features such as :
>
> Questions and Answers : guests in lecture mode press some dtmf to indicate
> they wish to ask a question, and the chair presses some dtmf to manage the
> queue and unmute the questioner.
>
> Chair greeting : the chair can record a personal greeting message which is
> played to guests when they join.
>
> Security Passcode : the chair can dynamically set a further PIN on the
> conference instance via DTMF.
>
> Chair privacy : a chair can invoke privacy via some DTMF so all guests are
> put on hold, and only chairs can speak.
>
> And others.
>
> All of these features will require us to store state relevant to the
> conference instance.
>
> It would make life a lot easier if we could store this state as custom
> variables on the conference object via the mod_conference api.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Phil
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com>
> *Subject: **Re: [Freeswitch-users] Custom variables for mod_conference*
> *Date: *27 May 2014 18:22:15 BST
> *To: *FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> *Reply-To: *FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
>
>
> we are happy to look at the patch, just submit it on
> http://jira.freeswitch.org.  That being said, conferences do not have
> their own variables, so I don't get what this feature is doing.
>
>
> On May 27, 2014, at 3:10 PM, Phil Dunks <phil.dunks at netdev.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi FS Guys
>
> It would be very useful for our application if we could set some arbitrary
> custom variables into a conference via the mod_conference api (e.g similar
> to uuid_setvar for setting channel variables).
>
> I have updated mod_conference to allow this, and it is working ok for me.
>
> I’m certainly not a C expert, but basically copied the pattern for other
> api commands.
>
> If I submit it as a patch please would you consider it for inclusion (and
> make any corrections that you feel necessary).
>
> Thanks
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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