[Asterisk-Users] "Broadcasting" Calls?

[Jerry Glomph Black]

Some months ago I built a web-based tool that does basically what Brian 
described.   One annoying weakness in this is that when you have Asterisk do an 
N-way dialout, some of the connections will INEVITABLY hit somebody's chatty 
voicemail tree.   Which can trash the conf-call for everybody else.

My "solution" was to put each newly-connected call into a loop with an 
announcement stating "Hit the one key to join the conference", with a brief 
keystroke timeout.   This is a bit icky, but works.


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Brian McManus wrote:

> You could write an AGI file, or a call file to bridge multiple
> conference rooms of teams?  How are you planning to have a caller call
> in and talk to his team or another team, just a conference room?
>
> What I would do is, create a .call file to join that person to a
> conference room, and then .call files to join the 20 other team members
> in to that same conference room.  Information on auto dialing and the
> .call file is available at :
> http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-print.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out
>
> I've used .call files to bridge about 40 people in to a single
> conference call (all using IP lines.)  However you can have asterisk
> ".call" PSTN numbers, or devices connected to your FXS lines, and
> automatically bridge them to your conference room.  With AGI, you could
> even play a prompt saying "Team member "Brian" is joining you to his
> global/team xxx conference room.