[asterisk-users] playing a sound into a meetme conf

[Moises Silva]

may be im missing something, but i think the pseudo channel you are
looking for is called "Local" and you can call some extension that you
know the only thing it does is play the message you need. So you can
originate a call to that Local channel and bridge it to the Meetme
conference where your users are waiting.

[meetme-play-message]
exten => s,1,Answer()
exten => s,2,Playback(were_sorry_the_translator_is_gone)
exten => s,3,Hangup()

[receive-meetme-message]
exten => s,1,Answer()
exten => s,2,AGI(some.pl) /* assuming is needed to execute agi to know
wich conference to join*/
exten => s,3,Meetme(${variable_conference_set_from_perl_agi})
exten => s,4,Hangup()

then, when a translator is gone, from the DeadAgi execute a manager
action "Originate" to call Local channel

Action: Originate
Channel: Local/s at meetme-play-message
Context: receive-meetme-message
extension: s
priority: 1


You can do it in both directions :)

It would be enough?

Regards

On 7/27/06, Simon Austin <simon at openflows.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem and I'm not sure if a solution is possible without using
> the asterisk testing code.
>
> I am developing a volunteer translation service that users can dial into.
> I have a list of volunteer translators cell phone numbers stored in a
> mysql database along with times that they have volunteered to act as
> translators.  That I pull from using some perl AGI scripts.
>
> A user calls, I ask which language they need help/translation with, then I
> put the users into a meetme conference while I call translators and play
> them a message asking if they're available at this time.  They can refuse
> or accept the call.
>
> Once I get a translator that has accepted the call I connect the
> translator as an administrator to the meetme conference that is holding
> the user that is listening to music on hold.
>
> That is all working quite well with the Dialplan and AGI scripts I have
> set up.
>
> Problems happen when the translator drops the call midway through the
> conversation.  i.e. Losing cell phone service.
>
> When that happens I need a way to play a message to the user to let them
> know that the translator has been lost and we're looking for a new one.
>
> I then need to put back the music on hold, then run deadagi scripts to
> find a new translator to connect to the meetme conference to help out the
> user.
>
> What is currently happening is that the user is left in the conference
> alone forever listening to MOH.
>
> I think there are two ways to do this, but I can't find out how to do
> either from any documentation I've found.
>
> 1. Break the user out of the meetme conf and back into the dialplan.
>   - If I kick them from the conference they are immediately hung up on and
> I don't know how to stop this from happening.
>   - There is function that is available in Asterisk 1.4 called
> ManagerRedirect that seems like it could do this for me, but i'd rather
> not try to integrate this into 1.2.10 because I fear breaking too many
> other things and running 1.4 (testing) just isn't an option at this time.
> (details here: http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=6508)
>
> 2. Play a message into the conference
>   - Can I join a new pseudo channel that I've created to a meetme conf
> that plays a message?  Does anyone know how to do this?
>   - Can I override the MOH and stream a recorded message into the
> conference with only the single user in the meetme conf?
>
> Any help/ideas are appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Simon
>
> Simon Austin
> http://simon.openflows.org
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