[asterisk-dev] Proposing meetme patch

[Dan Austin]

JP Wrote:
> this is the problem:

> The customer wants do have users dial into a conference but the
> conference shall start when the moderator enters the conference.
> He wants to distinguish users and moderators via seperate pins. 
> We tried using the admin pin option in meetme.conf. If a user 
> enters the adminpin he is admin but not moderator, therefore the 
> "w" flag will not work. Either I am missing something or the 
> seperate PIN system cannot be used for this task (not counting the
> possibility of authentication in the dialplan and callint meetme 
> with or without the "A" flag) of course. 

> I am willing to patch app_meetme and release the code but wanted 
> to get your opinion first. One possibility is to create a new 
> option telling meetme that administrators are moderators. So if 
> someone logs in with the Admin-PIN he/she is "marked" automatically.
> The other possiblity would be to create a third pin for moderators 
> but I do not favor this solution. What do you think?

I dealt with this in a custom app that sets the meetme options
based on the entered PIN.  You could accomplish the same thing
with dialplan logic, but PIN management would be a bit more
cumbersome (which you seem to address as not an option)

To add to the complexity, will every conference the customer
hosts follow this model, or will there be any conferences that
can start immediately without supervision?  In either case I
don't see that automatically "marking" callers using the AdminPIN
as a horrible idea.

Dan

> Regards,
>  JP