Hi, I made scenario in which I originate call and put it to conference. I use events to check if call was answered or not. I do it all with "ignore_early_media" set to false, so I can record/hear what remote leg is saying, this way call center operators can help to teach my system to recognize it automatically for next calls. I wrote that having one member in conference that I put this call in. I use that command. ORIGINATE {camel_command_id=4}sofia/gateway/sip.freeconet.pl/664558242 &conference(digitalvoice_call#0@talk) '' '' ULTIMO 429955 Call is not answered, it is rejected on phone. There is one member in conference. I get following events scenario (I omit here not interesting events for me): CHANNEL_CREATE CHANNEL_OUTGOING CHANNEL_ORIGINATE CHANNEL_STATE CHANNEL_STATE CHANNEL_STATE CHANNEL_PROGRESS_MEDIA CHANNEL_STATE CHANNEL_EXECUTE CUSTOM_conference::maintenance CHANNEL_PROGRESS CUSTOM_conference::maintenance CHANNEL_EXECUTE_COMPLETE CHANNEL_HANGUP CHANNEL_DESTROY If I do all the same but conference is not existing (there is no member in that conference), I get following events in order: CHANNEL_CREATE CHANNEL_OUTGOING CHANNEL_ORIGINATE CHANNEL_STATE CHANNEL_STATE CHANNEL_STATE CHANNEL_PROGRESS_MEDIA CHANNEL_STATE CHANNEL_EXECUTE CUSTOM_conference::maintenance CHANNEL_ANSWER CHANNEL_PROGRESS CUSTOM_conference::maintenance CHANNEL_EXECUTE_COMPLETE CHANNEL_HANGUP CHANNEL_DESTROY Call was not answer so there should be no CHANNEL_ANSWER event but it is there. In other cases when I answer call I get events order: - when there is member in conference CHANNEL_PROGRESS before CHANNEL_ANSWER event, time between them is the time of phone ringing. - where there is no member in conference CHANNEL_PROGRESS event 4 seconds after CHANNEL_ANSWER event, I cannot use this what I made for empty conferences. Maybe I don't understand early_media, but I would like it to work like in NOT EMPTY conference case. Is there a way to make some 'virtual/local' member that will be in conference just to not be empty? Regards Szymon