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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am struggling with a problem which I thought would be an easy
one : bridging several channels together in a <b>smart</b>
bridge. I emphasize <b>smart</b> : I want my bridge to be a
native_rtp one when only two channels are involved, and switch to
softmix technology when a third channel comes in.</p>
<p>I thought I could use ConfBridge for that, but it creates a
bridge that is not smart (it is of type softmix even if two
channels only are involved).</p>
<p>I can do this with ARI of course, but handling transfers will
become quite difficult : I will receive replace_channels events,
and channel optimization will not be performed. I managed to have
something working this way, but I had to write a lot of code and
some situations are very tricky to debug.</p>
<p>The easiest way I found was to write a piece if dialplan mixing
BridgeWait, Bridge and BridgeAdd. This works well, transfers are
handled by the Asterisk core, and the bridge is smart. Still, it
requires to maintain a list of bridged channels in order to call
BridgeWait, Bridge and BridgeAdd in the right order and with the
right parameters.</p>
<p>Can you think of any other way (hopefully easier) to achieve this
?</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>Jean<br>
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