[asterisk-dev] ChanSpy and MeetMe

[GDrayer at guesswho.com]

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:42:38 -0700, Stephen Uhler wrote
> > >>>GDrayer at guesswho.com said:
> > > I have been successful using ChanSpy on a standard Dial call but
when
> > > attempting to ChanSpy on an incoming call that has been added to a
> > > MeetMe conference (attempting to coach an agent that is speaking
to a
> > > conference of callers) it seems to fail to connect to the channel.
> > > Here's the console dump:
> > > 
> > >     -- Accepting call from '2154182700' to '3399' on channel 0/18,
span
> > > 4
> > >     -- Executing [3399 at from-internal:1] Answer("Zap/90-1", "") in
new
> > > stack
> > >     -- Executing [3399 at from-internal:2] Read("Zap/90-1",
> > > "GOTDTMF|demo-instruct|1||1|1") in new stack
> > >     -- Accepting a maximum of 1 digits.
> > >     -- Playing 'demo-instruct' (language 'en')
> > >     -- User entered '5'
> > >     -- Executing [3399 at from-internal:3] GotoIf("Zap/90-1", "5?9")
in new
> > > stack
> > >     -- Goto (from-internal,3399,9)
> > >     -- Executing [3399 at from-internal:9] AGI("Zap/90-1",
> > > "simpleconf.agi") in new stack
> > >     -- Launched AGI Script
/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/simpleconf.agi
> > >     -- Playing 'digits/5' (language 'en')
> > >     -- AGI Script Executing Application: (CHANSPY) Options:
(Zap/73|wbq)
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > I apologize in advance if my question lacks the necessary
information,
> > > I'm somewhat new to Asterisk.
> > > 
> > I couldn't get ChanSpy to work for Meetme either, and it wasn't
obvious
> > to me how to fix ChanSpy.  We added a "Whisper" capability to Meetme
> > to solve the problem instead: it works great for us.  See 0008446
> > in the bug tracker.

> I agree that it is good to have MeetMe participation as a normal call
(bridged
> call in this case, call limits etc.), but it is just an application
after all
> and the workaround i am using is "Dial(Local/${EXTEN}@Conferences)"
which
> 'fixes all unexpected behavior'.

> just my 0.02

I'm willing to try anything at this point but I'm not sure how the Dial
solution you suggest will generate something like what I need; I've
tried dialing channels currently in a MeetMe conference and my the
dialer always gets put on call waiting.  Obviously I'm missing a piece
of the puzzle; I'm just not sure what.

Thanks again,
George