[asterisk-users] Call Stealing

[Geoff Lane]

On Thursday, January 15, 2009, David fire wrote:

> hey it is preatty easy.... now i understand the problem....

> is simple 

> hangup in new location

> dial steal code for asterisk is just an extension and it should start an AGI.... 

> the system search for the call in the same group
> bridge the channel to the current channel asterisk 1.6

> or

> the system search for the call in the same group (AGI)
> send the channel to a conference (AGI search for the first free conference)
> join the current channel to the conference (AGI or AGI set a variable whit the conference number)

That sounds like a reasonable idea. However, I've never written an AGI
script and so I'm not sure how a script would detect which channel to
steal. Checking through TFOT, I see there's CHANNEL STATUS - although
I have no idea how to use it!

Thanks for the pointer.

-- 
Geoff