[asterisk-dev] Re: MONITOR_EXEC. What about MEETME_EXEC?

[Kaloyan Kovachev]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:00:28 +0200, Jan du Toit wrote 
>>>

>> Thanks for the 
advice.
>> I follow you and know what to do up to the point of 'run the 
conversion'
>> The conversion is performed by means of a 
script.
>> Can one invoke a script from an extension? And 
how?

>show application 
system
>show application 
trysystem

>They allow you to invoke an arbitrary command via the shell from the 
dialplan.

Thanks the System application 
works.

But I'm stuck before executing the script. I know this thread is suppose to be 
on the user list, but bare with me 
please.
I'm following Kevin Flemming's advice: 
>>Let's see... set a channel variable in the dialplan before going 
into MeetMe, then in the context where

>MeetMe was executed add an 'h' extension. In that extension, check 
for the magic channel variable,

>then use MEETME_COUNT() to see if any users are left in the MeetMe 
and if not, run the 
conversion.My dialplan looks as follows, the user dials in and are prompt for
meetme room and pin number: 
> 
> exten => s,1,MeetMe(${ROOM},rsxA,${PIN}) 
> 
> When a meetme user hangs up/been kicked then we count the number of
participants in the conference and based on that we execute the extension
which executes the System(lame-script) application. 
> 
> exten => h,1,MeetMeCount(${ROOM}|countvar) 
> exten => h,2,GotoIf($[${ROOM} != "" & ${countvar} = 0]?5010:5011) 
> 
> The problem is that the ${ROOM} varaible is empty by the time we get to h,1. 
> I have read somewhere that some channel varaibles are destroyed and you have
to watch out for this when using the h extension. 

I am not sure, but MeetMe does not set the variable ${ROOM} when entered from
the user - you will probably need to use ${CONFNO} instead

> 
> What know? I'm I going the right way? 
> 
> Thanks for all the help.