[asterisk-users] Bridge 2 incoming calls

[Tim Panton]

On 5 Sep 2008, at 15:50, Steve Murphy wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:27 +0100, Tim Panton wrote:
>> I think I've forgotten something obvious....
>>
>> I've got 2 incoming calls, I want to bridge them - how can I do  
>> this ?
>>
>> (assume I somehow know which calls should be paired up...)
>>
>> I could dump them both in a meetme - but that seems wasteful
>> as i _know_ there will only ever be 2 parties. (And I need DTMF
>> to flow through). I may want to record the bridged call, but that  
>> isn't
>> vital.
>>
>> I'm thinking of dialing chan_local with a call-id but I'm sure I
>> am missing something simpler.
>>
>>
>
> Not in 1.4, but in trunk,(and 1.6.x) there is a the Bridge manager
> command you can call via the manager interface, which takes two
> required args, the names of the two channels to bridge, and an
> optional arg, that will send a tone to the second channel.
>
> see main/features.c
>
> murf

Thats good to know.
Will the xml-over http manager interface be able to do it too? (pretty  
please?)

Tim.