[Asterisk-Users] live monitoring

[David C. Troy]

Just set up an extension that calls it:

Exten => 7000,1,ZapBarge

Then enter the channel number and pound, and you're good to go.  It enters 
the conference with ZT_CONF_MONITORBOTH option, which as far as I can tell 
is a listen-only mode -- so no need to mute your phone.

Trick with ZapBarge vs. ZapScan is you need to know what channel you want 
to listen to, as where ZapScan lets you scan through all of them much 
easier.

I will post a patch to convert ZapBarge into ZapScan.  It's pretty
trivial.  The thing I want to do that I haven't figured out yet, though,
is I want to skip a channel if it's not in use.  Right now you end up
listening to, say, 5 live channels and 18 on-hook channels on a PRI, for
instance.

Dave

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On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, mattf wrote:

> I see that zapbarge is integrated into my build of Asterisk, but could you
> give me some simple instructions on how to use it, also where can we find
> zapscan, I cannot find reference to it anywhere?
> 
> Do both of these simply monitor with one-way audio or do you need to mute
> your phone before you execute them?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> MATT---
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David C. Troy [mailto:dave at toad.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:58 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] live monitoring
> 
> 
> 
> No need to reinvent the wheel -- use ZapBarge.  I have also modified 
> ZapBarge into what I call 'ZapScan', which lets you scan through all of 
> your Zap channels by pressing # to change channels.  It works great!
> 
> Dave
> 
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> David C. Troy   [dave at toad.net]                   410-384-2500 Sales
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> 
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Alastair Maw wrote:
> 
> > mattf wrote:
> > 
> > > I've search through all of the lists and cannot find any descriptions of
> > > live monitoring (monitoring a phone call going on between an extension
> and a
> > > zaptel channel live from another extension while the monitoring phone is
> > > muted). I am aware of the monitor function which is actually a call
> > > recorder, but I'm looking for live monitoring from a muted extension. is
> > > this easily acomplished or is this a feature request?
> > 
> > I would also be very interested in doing this. I don't think it's 
> > currently possible out-of-the-box, but presumably it wouldn't be 
> > terribly hard to hack up the meetme application to support this, 
> > provided it's possible to do a one-way audio conference. So, the 
> > question is, is it?
> > 
> > Various people seem to be having SIP NAT one-way issues, so we could 
> > pipe things out over a loopback device set up to block UDP going one 
> > way. Very nasty and hacky, but might be easy and not much hassle. :)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alastair Maw <al.maw at mxtelecom.com>
> > MX Telecom - Systems Analyst
> > http://www.mxtelecom.com
> > 
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