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

[Kaloyan Kovachev]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:30:03 +0000 (UTC), Tony Mountifield wrote
> In article <20060802090815.M87110 at varna.net>,
> Kaloyan Kovachev <kkovachev at varna.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:00:28 +0200, Jan du Toit wrote 
> > > 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 have always found the variables I want have still been available 
> in the 'h' extension. When setting ROOM, you could always try 
> setting _ROOM or __ROOM in case it is getting lost somewhere during 
> a channel switch or inheritance. You still gets its value using 
> ${ROOM} and not ${_ROOM} etc.
> 
> See "show application set".
> 
> > 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
> 
> I assume the OP was setting ROOM himself, since he passed its value 
> to Meetme as an argument.
> 
If ${ROOM} was set - MeetMe wouldn't ask for the room number ... so i gues you
just need to Read() the ${ROOM} before starting MeetMe

> Also, an inspectino of the code shows that MeetMe does not set the variable
> CONFNO. It refers to it in the description of the 'R' (record) 
> option, but in fact that part of the default filename is filled in 
> directly from an internal variable, and not put into the variable CONFNO.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
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