[asterisk-users] How to steal an answered call?

[David Cunningham]

Hello Patrick and others,

Thanks, I wasn't familiar with the Bridge application and it may allow us
to do what's needed.

A transfer would of course be simpler but the user wants what the user
wants...

Thank you.


On 9 July 2018 at 19:52, John Kiniston <johnkiniston at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> You should be able to use the Bridge dialplan application to do what you
> want.
>
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+Application_Bridge
>
> I use the CHANNELS function and the IMPORT function to find the channel to
> bridge to my caller.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 8:17 PM David Cunningham <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm familiar with Pickup/PickupChan for taking a ringing call, but does
>> anyone know how a phone can "steal" an already answered call from another
>> phone? Our users have decided that call parking is too long-winded and
>> don't want to use that.
>>
>> For example: phone A calls phone B, phone B answers the call, phone C
>> dials something to "steal" the call from B, and finally A and C are talking.
>>
>> Searching on voip-info.org shows a "BristuffSteal" command but it's very
>> out of date (Asterisk 1.2).
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
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