[asterisk-dev] ChanSpy and MeetMe

[Kaloyan Kovachev]

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

> 
> S
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