[asterisk-dev] Introducing the new ConfBridge

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Would the GROUP/GROUCOUNT dialplan functions work for this sort of thing?

On 03/15/2011 12:22 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article<1561053615.95365.1298491443721.JavaMail.root at zimbra>,
> David Vossel<dvossel at digium.com>  wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Over the next couple of weeks I will be working on a new feature set for ConfBridge.  In
>> order to accomplish some of the features I have planned, a new configuration method for
>> ConfBridge will be necessary.  This new configuration method is what I am bringing to you
>> all today.  Before I get started on implementation I want to tell you all what I have
>> planned and open the floor for feedback.
>>
>> At the moment ConfBridge's configuration is centralized entirely in the dialplan.  The new
>> configuration method will be a combination of a new confbridge.conf file and a new
>> ConfBridge application syntax that takes advantage of the options declared in that config
>> file.  This will result in a ConfBridge application that is much more powerful than the
>> current application, but not backwards compatible with the ConfBridge syntax used in 1.8.
>> The lack of backwards compatibility with the previous syntax is unfortunate but necessary to
>> achieve the new functionality we have planned.
>
> Seeing the latest commit for the max_members option, made me think about
> this approach a bit more.
>
>> URL: http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=rev&rev=310880
>> Log:
>> Addes max_members option to ConfBridge bridge profiles
>> +;max_members=50                ; This option limits the number of participants for a single
>> +                               ; conference to a specific number.  By default conferences
>> +                               ; have no participant limit. After the limit is reached, the
>> +                               ; conference will be locked until someone leaves.  Note however
>> +                               ; that an Admin user will always be alowed to join the conference
>> +                               ; regardless if this limit is reached or not.
>> +
>
> This is the kind of option for which the ability to dynamically set it
> at run time would be very useful. Having to have a profile for every
> possible desired value would obviously be very cumbersome.
>
> Similarly for some of the other options - wait for leader, recording,
> identify participants, etc. My application currently sets channel
> variables to control each of these options, which are then referred to
> in the Meetme command in the dialplan. Again, the more different
> options that need to be independently settable, the more profiles
> would need to be defined, one for each combination.
>
> So, what could be a better way of making all the different profile items
> settable independently at runtime? Some kind of syntax to say take the
> value from a channel variable? Reinstate dialplan options for some features?
>
> Cheers
> Tony