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

[John Kiniston]

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 out of date (Asterisk 1.2).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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