[asterisk-users] How to initiate a two-party call from within Asterisk

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 29 November 2010 11:07:50 Roger Burton West wrote:
> The desired result is that user A's phone rings; when he picks it up,
> user B is dialled, and user A's channel is connected to that. (This is
> to be a back-end for a web-based address book.)

You're looking for the "Originate" action in AMI.  The originating channel is
user A's device address, and the action can be either a predetermined
extension in the dialplan or an application (such as Dial), with arguments.
If you go the extension route, you can additionally set variables from the
originate command to be set prior to the extension being invoked.

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