[Asterisk-Users] channels change names

[Peter Fern]

Probably because the Local proxy channel drops out once the two sides 
have been bridged.  If you want the Local chan to stay up, use the /n 
parameter and the local channel won't perform the native transfer.  This 
does have it's own problems, but should do what you want.

eg:

Channel: Local/conf at default/n



Jon-o Addleman wrote:

>I'm writing a php script to dial numbers and connect them to a
>conference. This is fairly straightforward:
>
>Action: originate
>Channel: Local/conf at default
>Context: default
>Exten: $extension
>Priority: 1
>
>This is pretty straightforward. However, the script then loads the list
>of members in the conference (using the meetme list ... command). For
>local extensions this works fine - the list of members shows the right
>channels, etc. The problem I'm having is that if the extension is
>external, the conference list shows a Local/$extension channel at the
>start, and then once the call is completed, it changes the channel to
>whatever was dialed. 
>
>I'm probably not explaining it properly, but what I'd like to have
>happen is that I get one consistent channel name from the start of the
>connection - it doesn't matter what it is, as long as it doesn't change.
>As things stand, the conference list isn't accurate, unless I wait about
>5 seconds after adding someone before updating the list.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions you might have here!
>
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