[Asterisk-Users] App_conference in dial plan?

[Mark Benson]

exten => 901,1,Conference(Internal Test Conference/S/1)

Looks like it does the job...

Mark Benson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to get meetme working for a while now (complie 
> problems - will probably try again later on another machine) but have 
> given up and started looking at alternatives.
>
> I've managed to get app_conference compiled and installed - show 
> modules shows its there in asterisk, but I don't know how too actually 
> use it in the dial plan...
>
> The info on voip-info doesn't explain its usage very well...
>
> The dial plan example doesn't (to my mind anyway) specify an extention 
> to call for conferencing...
>
> ; Make as many of these contexts as you have seperate conference bridges
> ; change "conferencename" in each
> [conf-conferencename]
> exten => join,1,System(/opt/asterisk/bin/conference-announce 
> conferencename in)
> exten => join,2,Conference(conferencename/S/1)
>
> exten => h,1,System(/opt/asterisk/bin/conference-announce 
> conferencename out)
>
> [confhelper]
> ; make one of these extensions per seperate conference bridge
> exten => conf-conferencename,1,Conference(conferencename/S/1)
>
> exten => in,1,Answer()
> ; if I use Playback here instead of BackGround, asterisk crashes
> exten => in,2,BackGround(conf-announce)
> exten => in,3,ResponseTimeout(5)
> exten => in,4,Hangup()
>
> exten => out,1,Answer()
> exten => out,2,BackGround(conf-leave)
> exten => out,3,ResponseTimeout(5)
> exten => out,4,Hangup()
>
> how do I setup up app_conference to respond to an extention? Just a 
> real simple example to get me started would be appreciated...
>
> I've tried a few things along the lines of the example meetme extention
>
> ie exten => 901,1,app_conference(901||1234) or exten => 
> 901,1,cmd_conference(901||1234)
>
> But I guess its expecting too much to think that this would fireup 
> app_conference
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
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