Hi,

I’ve been developing an application module in C/C++ for our online personals type of application.  All are well until I need to bridge two existing sessions together and need to find a way to monitor DTMF key (*) so I can un-bridge them and hopefully put them back to where they were.

Call flow is like:

Caller 1 sends recorded message to Caller 2 asking for live connection

Caller 1 in a loop of listening to wait music and checking Caller 2 response (via database)  (is there a better way like putting caller 1 on hold and somehow signal it from Caller 2’s thread?)

Caller 2 hears message and accepts (update database)

*bridge Caller 1 and Caller 2

*monitor DTMF for asterisk key

*un-bridge and send them back to where they were so they can continue to exchange messages with other callers

I tried switch_ivr_uuid_bridge function like below:

Originator side:

switch_ivr_uuid_bridge

//set up args so it stops on any dtmf

while (switch_channel_ready(channel))

{

                status = switch_ivr_sleep(session, 60000, SWITCH_TRUE, &args);

                if (status == SWITCH_BREAK && dtmf_key == ‘*’)

                                break;

}

Originatee side:

//set up args so it stops on any dtmf

while (switch_channel_ready(channel))

{

                status = switch_ivr_sleep(session, 60000, SWITCH_TRUE, &args);

                if (status == SWITCH_BREAK && dtmf_key == ‘*’)

                                break;

}

The problem is after switch_ivr_uuid_bridge call, the channel state has changed and switch_channel_ready becomes false and I immediately got out of the loop and eventually exit from the thread.

How do I make this work?  Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

Eddy Chu