[Asterisk-Users] A few questions

[C. Maj]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Ben Merrills waxed:

> Hi,
>  
> I have a couple of questions about MeetMe and call queues. I'm still
> pretty new to Asterisk, but already having to write a Service Center
> call manager for it (which I might add, our director has agreed to make
> open source!).

That's great news.

> MeetMe:
>             
> How can I get MeetMe (does it even do this) to ask the user to speak
> their name first, and play that as the new member announcement. It seems
> like a common feature in most hardware PBX systems we've used that
> support Call Conferences.
>  
> Has anyone found a way of doing this? Is there an alternative to MeetMe
> that would support this feature (that's as good if not better?).

I don't think this is currently supported, could be wrong,
tho.  Would take some modification to app_meetme.c, or else
just have people say there name when it beeps them in. :)

Sort of the flip side, but maybe it would be more helpful to
have the person entering the conference hear the name of
everyone already in it.  That could be done via Record and
Playback apps, before executing MeetMe.  Every time someone
enters, have Record take their name.  Then, run Playback for
each of the Recorded files.

> Queues:
>  
> I'm running the 1.0 stable from the cvs server, and I've added the queue
> status announcement directives to the queues.conf - yet asterisk gives
> me the following errors:
>  
> Apr 21 11:22:58 WARNING[950286]: Unknown keyword in queue 'Sales':
> monitor-format at line 9 of queue.conf

I think this only works in development, not stable, CVS. :(

--Chris


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