If you look at my original post you’ll see I tried to do that with the same results:

session:execute("conference", argv[1] .. "@default")

api = freeswitch.API()

confplay = api:execute("conference", argv[1] .. " play /usr/local/freeswitch/sounds/tones/norstar.wav ")

What is happening in Lua is because it’s not a threadable language you can’t do an “execute and forget” on a particular command. So when the conference is run Lua will stop executing at that point.

Josh Patten

Brazos County Network Engineer

979.361.4676

From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Michael Collins
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:48 AM
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] mod_lua play file into conference

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Josh M. Patten <jpatten@co.brazos.tx.us> wrote:

It seems the way this could be accomplished is to allow asynchronous execution capabilities in lua. However I don't think this exists.

Is there a better way to "execute and forget" the conference app so the script can move on to the next bit of code?

Try using an API instead of messing with session:xxx and all that stuff:

api = freeswitch.API();

res = api:execute("conference",conf_name .. " play /path/to/file.wav";

conf_name is the name of the conference you are using. If you're not sure what name you have then just start up a conference and then type "conference list" at fs_cli and you'll see the name. You can use channel variables, etc. if the name changes depending on the destination number.

-MC